The Peneda-Gerês National Park, on the Northwest of mainland Portugal, is the only national park we have in the whole portuguese nation, being the remaining ones with a status of nature reserves or natural parks. Home of human settlements thousands of years before Portugal was even a nation, this remote corner of Portugal has an identity of its own, forged on its isolation, altitude and harsh weather. Spring, however, is another story, as this picture, taken on the high meadows near the millenary town of Castro Laboreiro, shows.
