Why Viseu Dão Lafões Area

The Comunidade Intermunicipal Viseu Dão Lafões is an administrative division in Portugal. It replaced the previously existing Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu. Since January 2015, Viseu Dão Lafões is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. The main city and seat of the intermunicipal community is Viseu. The population in 2011 was 267,633, in an area of 3,237.74 km².

Quality of Life

Since prehistoric times, the region has been chosen as a “home” by the most diverse villages, who left memories and evidence of their presence there, making it a fertile ground for unique experiences and experiences, which are important to know or rediscover, without delay, which allows the traveler and tourist to prepare for a journey through words associated with art history, archeology and architecture.

The cultural heritage of Viseu Dão Lafões extends over an area of ​​3,483 km2 and is home to the region's best kept secrets, including popular and religious rituals.

With a stunning landscape marked by mountains and rivers, the territory is also home to the largest number of thermal spas in operation in the country, with characteristics that guarantee the unequivocal quality of its thermal waters and whose purity and richness in chemical and mineralogical terms makes them especially indicated for therapeutic purposes.