Relaxxxxxxx and other Turquel, Portugal Things to Do Tips

Combining rural tranquility with all the essential exigencies of modern life, Turquel is a good place for an inexpensive exploration of the surrounding treasures. Missing attractions and hotels, there are some cheap guesthouses around it, specially lining the IC2 road, some of them with good and cheap restaurants, easy to book locally, even in high season.

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If it happens to you passing trough Turquel in a weekend, look at the sports center. Maybe you have the chance of seeing very… very small children rolling seriously as adults, in one of the best schools in the entire world (and...remember, also with a ballroom dance school, where this friend of yours shows all the youth of his 62)

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Despite the new presence of the eolic park, the mountain of Candeeiros maintains all its charm. The struggle to survive against the rocky soil, gave place to a profitable stone business, visible everywhere. sometimes agressing the landscape. In the southern side, the odd salt exploitation (belonging to Rio Maior area), 200 meters above sea level, still confuses the locals.

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Sometimes Turquel changes its face and surprises. Beauty may be across the street. And since 1989 (first picture) no more snow in Turquel, until 29/1/2006, when snow was an extraordinary event in almost all the country, and a good opportunity to unusual photos.

I hardly had time to make pictures, and it was the first (and last) time that snow became a problem - I needed to bring Fernanda from Coimbra and traffic was closed for some time.

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Part of the Natural Park is included in Turquel area. Rough environment and wide sights encircle beautiful and appealing spots, for a vacation away from it all. Atop the mountain, the old house of the guards is a chosen place for picnics, and a overnight possibility for a dozen of persons.

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In a small house belonging to the Philarmonic Association, ADEPART, a cultural organization, created in 2001 a small museum, collecting the local memories. In display there are traditional instruments, books, paintings, and handicrafts. One of my uncles donated his funny wooden carvings works, with caricatures of most known personalities, which can also be seen there.

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Address: Casa da Musica, Turquel
Website: http://adepart2008.blogspot.com/

The old church of Turquel (16th century ?) has suffered several restorations, that changed completely its interior. Fortunately, all of them respected the Manueline doors, both classified today by our national monuments department.

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This column was erected in the church's yard by the initiative of my school teacher, in 1940 ( don't blame me, I only was born six years later, in the pink house in the background), to join the nationalist enthusiasm used by the dictatorship in the celebration of the 300 years of recuperated independence. Lisbon made the exhibition of the "Mundo Português" that gave the actual good frame to Jeronimos and the Tower, in Belem (see my
Lisboa tips about it) and Turquel, at its scale, couldn't stay behind.

The monument was moved, but still stands, now in the opposite side of the church.

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Successive reconstruction gave to the interior of the church a modern look, only betrayed by the doors, the baptismal basin and the image of Nª Sº da Conceição.

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In the old days, the dew tourists passing by stopped in the road, taking a picture of a small mount surrounded by agricultural fields, with three windmills working in its top. Landscape changed, concrete replaced agriculture, but a couple of windmills still resist, mixed with the houses, with the owners showing their love for the old memories. Till when?

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