Percurso Terras de Dom Pedro Afonso

This walking trail is characterized by its route through parishes in the municipality of Lamego, such as Lalim, Lazarim, Meijinhos, and Melcões. The trail is named after D. Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos (13th–14th centuries).

He was the illegitimate son of D. Dinis, “The Farmer,” and Graça Anes, a young woman from Torres Vedras. It was the year 1298, and Queen D. Isabel was granted guardianship of D. Dinis’s three illegitimate children, among whom was Pedro Afonso, who would go on to become Lord of Lalim, around 1306, in whose palace he lived until the end of his life, following the death of D. Dinis in 1325. D. Pedro is said to have made the Lalim Palace his residence. Here he wrote his love ballads and his book of genealogies. He died in 1354. He is buried in the Convent of São João de Tarouca.

Along this route, we can also see the beautiful parish church of Meijinhos, located at the top of the hill.