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Most rooms have balconies, plus there is a pool and tennis courts. The modest restaurant
and bar is what passes for Campo nightlife. It's located just before the village.
O Abocanhado
( 253 352 944;
www.abocanhado.com
;
Brufe; mains €15-18; lunch & dinner daily mid-Jul-Aug, Sat & Sun
Sep-mid-Jul)
This beautifully situated restaurant is a temple to the finest ingredients that the
surrounding countryside has to offer, including
javali
(wild boar),
veado
(venison) and
coelho
(rabbit), as well as beef and goat raised in the adjacent fields. Finish with
requeijão
- a soft goat's cheese so fresh it's actually sweet.
The only drawback: off-season, the restaurant keeps irregular hours, so call ahead be-
fore making the trip. It's located 9km east of Campo do Gerês (across the dam), in the vil-
lage of Brufe, on a panoramic spot above the Rio Homem.
PORTUGUESE
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Getting There & Away
From Braga, Transdev has four daily buses (€4.10, 1½ hours; fewer at weekends) that stop
at the museum crossroad and the village centre.
Eastern Peneda-Gerês
Cabril, on the eastern limb of the national park, and Montalegre, just outside the park, are
actually in Trás-os-Montes, but you're unlikely to visit either unless you're coming in or
out of the park.
CABRIL
POP 550 / ELEV 400M
Although it hardly looks the part, peaceful Cabril - set with its outlying hamlets in a wide,
fertile bowl backed by soaring peaks - is the administrative centre of Portugal's biggest
freguesia
(parish), stretching up to the Spanish border. Your best reference point is
Largo do
Cruzeiro
, with its old
pelourinho
. To one side is the squat but stately
Igreja de São Lourenço
,
said to have been moved five centuries ago, brick by brick, by villagers of nearby São
Lourenço. Some 400m southwest is a bridge over an arm of the Albufeira de Salamonde
where you'll find
Restaurante Ponte Nova
(mains €7-13; breakfast, lunch & dinner)
. It services good
river trout (in season) and, if you order ahead,
cabrito
or
javali assada
. There's an out-
door deck right over the water. While Cabril is a lovely place to stop for lunch, there's no
reason to stay the night.
