The five senses of a tourist in Ponte de Lima: taste, sight, touch, smell and hear
Ponte de Lima
Description
Travelling
is mostly a sensorial experience with a distinct contribuition from all senses.
A holiday is often the once-a-year opportunity to relax and recharge. Tourists
have firstly a perception through the vision, with special emphasis on the
architecture, heritage and color of the destiny. Then, they taste ours
delicious cuisine, our flavors. At the hearing level, folk music associated
with typical instruments. For the smell, we highlight the smell of nature, the
rich gastronomy and our festivities and pilgrimages. Concerning to the tact,
tourists can associate Ponte de Lima to the granite touch of manor houses and
particulary from roman and medieval bridge.
Engage
all five senses – Taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing. Open your senses,
and your mind might open, too.
Sights
What make Ponte de Lima so distinctive? A peculiar and picturesque combination between the Lima river and roman and medieval bridge; beldeveres; incredible shades of sunset or sunrise tones; the peaceful ‘Avenida dos Plátanos’, nature all around, stunning lagoons … but it’s much better come and embrace the beauty.
Hearing
Ponte de Lima is a hidden paradise of peace and serenity. Listen to the local legends, folk music by traditional groups, embracing new perspectives and disconnecting from the everyday. Locals will love sharing their wisdom with you.Certain sounds are as specific to a place such as language or food: listen to the screech of birds, a lullaby of wind, rain pattering on windows or the song of animals tolling. The hearing is stimulated, as if by magic, through the various sounds that spread through the garden, coming from the flowers and scattered throught the wind. Even volume conversation itself is culturally specific: visit us during fortnightly market (every two weeks on Monday) and live a unique experience of shopping on the articicial streets created by the tents on the sand on the left bank of river.
Smell
Taste
Touch
Link, connect your memory to all senses when you visit Ponte de Lima and you will be prepared to wash all your worries away.
Sights
For a tourist see santuacturies,
churches, landscapes or museums while on holidays it’s commom, soaking up the
sights without thinking much about our other senses. Looking seems automatic
and we take pictures not only with our cameras but also with our eyes.
What make Ponte de Lima so distinctive? A peculiar and picturesque combination between the Lima river and roman and medieval bridge; beldeveres; incredible shades of sunset or sunrise tones; the peaceful ‘Avenida dos Plátanos’, nature all around, stunning lagoons … but it’s much better come and embrace the beauty.
Hearing
Ponte de Lima is a hidden paradise of peace and serenity. Listen to the local legends, folk music by traditional groups, embracing new perspectives and disconnecting from the everyday. Locals will love sharing their wisdom with you.Certain sounds are as specific to a place such as language or food: listen to the screech of birds, a lullaby of wind, rain pattering on windows or the song of animals tolling. The hearing is stimulated, as if by magic, through the various sounds that spread through the garden, coming from the flowers and scattered throught the wind. Even volume conversation itself is culturally specific: visit us during fortnightly market (every two weeks on Monday) and live a unique experience of shopping on the articicial streets created by the tents on the sand on the left bank of river.
Smell
Ponte de Lima provide an authenthic
‘aroma theraphy’ with distinctive smells from delicious food, nature, gardens, traditonal
shops, fresh products from market… a world of smells to emerge. The scent of
the flower beds around the hedges invites us to enter in the several gardens
around the oldest town of Portugal. Breathe in the fresh air, sway with
the trees, and drink in the views from the stunning beldeveres. Celebrate life,
we know you have thirst for unrehearsed days. All this while you’re surrounded
by a unique atmosphere of serenity.
Taste
Food is a supreme travel
pleasure. Delicious gastronomy is a lever to creative minds and wandering
souls. Combine food with a glass of good Vinho Verde. Indulge yourself in a
typical, genuine meal at a local restaurant. Connect yourself to the emotions
and the feelings of simple easy living. So many things to taste during your
stay.
Touch
Explore Ponte de Lima, through the
sense of touch, is the most intimate way
to get in touch with the world and at any stage of development, the essence of
our emotional well-being.
Touching something transports us instantly to a time and a place: rich heritage mainly made by granite which
every stone as something to reveal, touch each other and be touched by the sun.
The touch of fresh, clean, crisp white cotton linen sheets in a fantastic
accomodation, the touch of a napkin or a tablecloth in a restaurant… the touch
in fresh products, when the sense of touch
meets the sense of taste.
Link, connect your memory to all senses when you visit Ponte de Lima and you will be prepared to wash all your worries away.
