The Wild West of the Douro
The train ride from Pêso da Régua to Pocinho takes about an hour and a half. It's a wildly picturesque route, with the tracks laid just at the edge of the Douro River and at the base of steep hillsides where terraced vineyards that seem impossible to cultivate alternate with massive granite outcroppings. Whoever conceived that grapes could be grown her…
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