1. Legends Portugal Team

2. ADAMASTOR According to the legend, Adamastor was a giant, physically big and robust like a mountain, filled with beard that seemed like waves, his eyes were terrifying and his dorsal movements were scary, his mouth was dark like coal and an endless tunnel. He was furious with Zeus, the supreme god. Zeus punished him, condemning him to wander the Earth forever, from shore to shore.

3. Because of this sentence, Adamastor met Thetis, a ocean nymph, and fell in love with her. But the giant knew that he was too ugly to call her attention, so Adamastor decided to solve the problem using strength. Terrified, the mother of Thetis tried to convince her daughter to accept Adamastor as a mate. Thetis refused her advices and she found another solution: she asked Zeus for help and made a trap to catch the giant. Thetis said to Adamastor that if he didn’t start a war, he could have her just for him. Full of hope, Adamastor stopped the war and asked for a date with his beloved one. She showed up, but when Adamastor hugged her and was about to kiss her, he saw himself stuck to a mountain. In the end, Adamastor became part of the mountain that was called Cabo das Tormentas (Cape of Storms).

4. Some years later, the brave Portuguese people overpassed the haunted mountain and it became “O Cabo da Boa Esperança” (Cape of Good Hope). Adamastor haunted the imagination of a countless number of Portuguese sailors during the Portuguese discoveries. The giant is referenced on the famous book of Luis de Camões, “Os Lusíadas”. Some years later, the brave Portuguese people overpassed the haunted mountain and it became “O Cabo da Boa Esperança” (Cape of Good Hope). Adamastor haunted the imagination of a countless number of Portuguese sailors during the Portuguese discoveries. The giant is referenced on the famous book of Luis de Camões, “Os Lusíadas”.

5. There is a fountain in Vouzela called the Walnut tree fountain, also known as the Lovers’ fountain. It is said that the one who drinks its waters will most definitely get married in Vouzela. Fonte da Nogueira

6. The fountain of the ravine Once upon a time in a hot midsummer day, the king and his court were passing through Maceira. The king was feeling incredibly thirsty as it was one of the hottest seasons ever seen.

7. As he walked by a rock, the mighty king, unable to satisfy the fiery thirst that tormented him, screamed to his escorts in despair and in an anger riddled tone: “Damn horse kick this rock until water pours out of it”. Words hadn’t been spoken yet and the horse, as if it had read his master’s mind or had understood his angry words, gave the rock a kick so strong it made the earth and the sky tremble.

8. The kick was so violent that the king had to sustain himself with his sword into the rock, in the same spot the horse had kicked before. But the sword didn’t find much resistance, so it perforated it and from the open hole cold water spilled profusely quenching the king’s thirst.

9. The people, seeing that much abundance of such clean and crystalline water where before there was nothing but dryness, began to dig in the lower part of the rock and opened a little hollow there, from which a gushing of the precious refreshing liquid began running and has never stopped until today. There, it was built, many years later, the so called Fountain of the ravine.

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