The good news about windmills is that one could almost always find the road. It might be private, closed or bumpy, but it will be a road. This time it was a good gravel road and soon we reached the top of Povoinha, which is surrounded by windmills and has a raised trig pillar. We stopped briefly to take some elevation readings and drove little over a kilometre to the east to a slightly lower peak, Mata de Álvaro, with an interesting lookout tower with a trig on the roof. It was already afternoon, but this wasn’t our last peak for the day; we planned to visit the peaks of Zibreiro and Cabeço Raínha before heading back to the airport.
Povoínha
Povoinha | 970 m altitude | 350 m prominence |
Ranges | Iberian Peninsula - Portugal-Galicia | |
Countries/regions | Leiria - Castelo Branco | |
Distance | 0.60 km up | 0.70 km down |
Elevation | 1 m gain | 1 m loss |
Time | 0h05 up 0h03 other | 0h05 down 0h13 total |
Trailhead | 969 m altitude | |
Route | Wide gravel road all the way to the top | |
Links | GPX trail |