Isolated Plot located in S.Bartolomeu de Messines

Nowadays Sao Bartolomeu de Messines is known for its local handicraft artists work and farmers’ products. From rosmarin and chilly honey producers to bakers of traitional regional sweets, fruits, dry nuts and producers of the popular portuguese drink “medronho” and other liquers. There are local artists whose talent will win you over with their works in wood, cane, bamboo and plaster as well as painting of tiles and ceramics.

In this traditional town you can find the National Centre for Reproduction of the Lynx Pardinus (Lince Ibérico), an animal who used to roam freely in these áreas, but now at risk of extinction, part of Felidae family, so sibling with the tiger and jaguar and other gratious but carnivourous creatures.

If you love to wander around and simply absorb the nature, Sao Bartolomeu de Messines has 2 recommended and equally exciting routes, taking you around Vale dos Fuzeiros and the arqueological circuit of Vilarinha.

If you are brave enough, one should venture oneself to the historical parto f the town called “Ruas de Cima”, meaning “the streets up there”, here you can enjoy beautiful narrow cobbled streets and white houses that take you to Penedo Grande. If you are a lover of literature you can visit here the moneument as wel las the museum of a locally born, but nationally known, poet and teacher, Joao de Deus. Here you can also find quaint restaurante with delicious traditional cuisine, you shouldn’t miss the “Estrela do Sul” restaurant and the “O Petisco”.

A place worth visiting and getting to know closer.