Almonds Tree in Flower


During the months of February and March the almonds tree in flower provide a spectacle of colors that if extends for the valleys of the Douro. The involving landscape acquires clearer tones, transmitting a peace sensation and fascinating any person.
The first buttons of almond tree flower unclasp one month before the spring, announcing, without delays, the station floweriest. Since the second week of February until the first days of March the almonds tree blossom and the Douro acquires a new image, more colorful, pure and calm. The valleys naked for the Winter acquire a new dressing in white and pink tones.
The almond is one of the produced fruits more in the region of the Douro, mainly in the county’s of Freixo de Espada to the Brace, Mogadouro, Tower of Moncorvo and New Vila of Estuary Côa, that if insert in the Route of the Almonds tree. As form of celebrate the beautiful natural phenomenon, these county’s organize some celebrates during that time, for form the one that this beautiful region replete of flowery trees not unobserved pass to nobody.
In Freixo de Espada to the Brace they become fullfilled it cross-border Fair of Arribas of the Douro and the Party of the Gostos and Saberes, where the regional and Iberian artesanato is excepted. In Mogadouro the party starts, also, in the end of February with the Frank Fair of Products of the Land. The celebrates are drawn out during the month of March with the Meeting of Pauliteiros of the county de Mogadouro, the Festival of Folklore of the Almonds tree already in March and a passage of BTT for the Almonds tree. In Tower of Moncorvo it does not lack musical animation, beyond the Fair of Products of the Land and Stock. New village of Estuary Côa receives some activities of crosse, around the fields of almonds tree in flower, stops beyond the Festival of Folklore, Frank Fair, Stroll of Cicloturismo.
It prays the legend that the almonds tree had appeared in Portugal, before this being kingdom, in the time of the moors. Young king Ibn-Almundim will have been the responsible one for such culture, therefore he wanted to please its princess Scandinavian, who felt homesicknesses of the snow of its Native land. When the almonds tree blossom resemble it a snow mantle that has covered the horizon, with the advantage not to be cold and to perfume air, with the candy perfume that announces the Spring.

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