Montalegre

Montalegre is a municipality in the district of Vila Real (sub-region: Alto Tâmega e Barroso), covering 806 km² in 25 parishes. Most of it — 78 % — is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.

The map finds 236 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Montalegre, Vilar de Perdizes and Pitões das Junias. 38 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them — among them Sidrós, Fafião and Padrões.