The Alto Douro Wine Region is a UNESCO-listed cultural landscape that has produced wine for some 2,000 years; the region’s best known product is Port, a sweet, full-bodied fortified 🍷 wine. We intersected the Rio Douro | Douro River at Mesão Frio, where we parked at a cemetery for lunch with this awesome view from the van door (📷1). Our drive continued up the Douro Valley between the towns of Peso da Régua & Pinhão, which local intel had informed us was the most scenic section (📷2&3). We came back to the river at Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa | Côa Valley Archaeological Park, near the town of Vila Nova de Foz Côa—still in the upper part of the wine region (📷4).

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