Serra do Buçaco

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Serra do Buçaco
Serra do Buçaco

Serra do Buçaco

Highest peak Cruz Alta ( 547  m )
location Portugal
Serra do Buçaco (Portugal)
Serra do Buçaco
Coordinates 40 ° 23 ′  N , 8 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 23 ′  N , 8 ° 22 ′  W
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The Serra do Buçaco (also Serra do Bussaco ) is a forested mountain range in central Portugal . A part (105 ha) is under nature protection as Mata Nacional do Buçaco ("National Forest of Bussaco"). In the course of Portuguese colonial history , the seafarers brought plants with them from the newly discovered countries, so that the forest, often referred to as the enchanted fairy-tale forest, criss-crossed by signposted hiking and walking trails with 300 exotic and 400 native species of trees and bushes, offers an unusual botanical mixture.

In 1628 the newly established Carmelite monastery, Convento de Santa Cruz do Buçaco, took over the preservation of the forest. Since 1653, the forest has been under the protection of the Pope, who threatened excommunication who felled a tree. Entering the monastery grounds including the forest by women was forbidden from 1622 by a papal decree. The Carmelites surrounded it by a 5.7 km long wall with ten gates.

In the forest there is a park-like area with a spring with water stairs, grottos and a pond as well as several chapels and prayer stations.

After the dissolution of the Portuguese monasteries at the end of the 19th century, King Carlos had a neo- Manueline summer palace built here, since 1905 today's Palácio Hotel do Buçaco .

From the spa town of Luso the Serra do Buçaco rises to 549 meters, but the Miradouro da Cruz Alta viewpoint is usually given as the summit.

Here was 1810 Battle of Buçaco place where the Napoleonic invasion army under Gen.Massená by a British-Portuguese army under Gen.Wellington was beaten.

Web links

Commons : Mata Nacional do Buçaco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Burmeister: Portugal - DuMont Art Travel Guide 3rd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2008, page 225f
  2. ↑ a b c Destinations online.de, accessed May 22, 2016 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reise-ziel-online.de
  3. ↑ L.Hohenberger / J.Strohmaier: Portugal 2nd edition, DuMont travel publishing, Ostfildern 2009, page 205
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fmb.pt

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  • The Fonte Fría spring

  • In the Mata Nacional

  • One of the entrances

  • View from the Serra do Buçaco

  • On one of the hiking trails

  • In the Serra do Buçaco

  • One of the driveways

  • On one of the hiking trails

  • In the Mata Nacional

  • Chapel in the Serra do Buçaco