Castelo Branco Travel Guide

The district of Castelo Branco is formed by 11 municipality (Belmonte, Covilhã, Fundão, Idanha-a-Nova, Oleiros, Penamacor, Proença-a-Nova, Sertã, Vila de Rei and Vila Velha de Ródão), the capital of the district is placed in the city of Castelo Branco, this, built the 472 m height, more or less in the place where if it found the old city Roman of Castra Lenco, between the rivers Ponsul and Ocreza, in the center of a planaltic region, and where in the top of a mountain of an isolated outeiro, still the remaining portions of the old castle of the Templários are delimited. Castelo Branco received charter between 1181 and 1211, and later was raised the city in 1771 during the ministry of the Marquês de Pombal house.

The geographic delimitation of the district is made the North for the district of Guarda, the South for the district of Portalegre, the West for the districts of Santarém, Leiria and Coimbra , the East for the borders with the neighboring country, Spain .

Geographically the district is characterized by the some mountain ranges that cross it, with part of the mountain ranges of the Star and the Lousã and with the mountain ranges of the Gardunha, Malcata, Alvelos, and Muradal.

In its valleys Ergs run the Rivers, Ponsul, Ocreza, and the Zêzere, tributaries of the right edge of the River Tejo, which delimits the district the South.