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Ourém

hike | 2023-02-06
330 m altitude, 100 m prominence, - km isolation

This legend tells the story of a Christian knight, Gonçalo Hermigues, who kidnapped a Moorish princess named Fatima on St John’s Day in 1158. The knight took her to a small village in Portugal and she fell in love with him and converted to Christianity, taking the name Oureana. As a reward for her conversion, the princess was given the town which she called Ourém, derived from her own name. This is likely the origin of the parish of Fátima of Ourém. Nice legend, but we are here because we spotted hill with castle on top. After short detour we left or car at the cemetery near the top and short walked to the castle walls.

That’s how we spotted the hill of Ourém with its castle and made a detour.
Cemitério da Vila de Ourém
Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Misericórdias
Carapita
Statue of D. Nuno Álvares Pereira
Views of the city of Ourém with its 12,000 inhabitants (left)
Aire, the mountain we climbed in the morning (right)
Looks like a trig point, but probably something else
Chapel decorated with typical Portuguese ceramics

It’s very hard to say which point is a natural peak; probably none of the visible ones, because there are man-made structures everywhere. Anyway, we just had a nice morning view of the surrounding villages, valleys and the Aire peak, which we had driven to an hour earlier. We continue on to the originally planned Alvaiázere


Ourém 330 m altitude
100 m prominence
Ranges Iberian Peninsula - Portugal-Galicia
Countries/regions Portugal - Santarém
Distance 0.00 km up 0.40 km down
Elevation 16 m gain 16 m loss
Time
0h07 up
0h02 other
0h05 down
0h14 total
Trailhead 314 m altitude 39.6425830, -8.5926940
Route

This peak in the village with the castle at the top. One can park your car near the castle or in the cemetery.

Difficulties

Identifying a natural high point

Links GPX trail
  • Iberian Peninsula 2023
  • « Aire
  • Alvaiázere »

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TRIPS

2023
West Africa II 2023
Iberian Peninsula 2023
West Africa 2023
Central America 2023
2022
Andes 2022
Northwest Europe 2022
Malay Archipelago III 2022
Malay Archipelago II 2022
Anatolia Mountains 2022
Iberian Peninsula 2022
Atlas Mountains 2022
North France-West Rhine Area 2022

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843 km walked, 65 330 m climbed

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