QUINTA das MINAS da RECHEIRA, known in the region as "Minas do Alemão", is located in the town of Barco - Covilhã, in the district of Castelo Branco. It is a straight line to Serra da Estrela - Torres in about 16km, the normal route is about 35km and takes about 40 minutes, and the distance to Lisbon or Oporto is roughly the same, with about 250km, which can be travelled in 2h20. The RECHEIRA MINES Complex values, promotes, interprets and publicises the Cultural Legacy, Heritage and Live Mining Industrial Tourism, Adventure and Thrill Tourism, Preservation and Mining History of an old private mine, Ethnology, Tradition, Customs, Heritage, Production Processes, Memory, Geology and Mineralogy more than 500 million years old, Geodiversity, Geomining, Geopatrimony, Georeferencing, Geoconservation, They are a Geosite or National Geological Site and are already on the UNESCO list, Geotourism, Natural, Landscape and Scenic Heritage and Tourism, Biology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Astronomy, Mining Village Tourism, Personalised Active Tourism, Creative and Innovative Tourism, Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability Tourism, Completely Isolated, Safe and Welcoming in the Family Programme concept, pets, events, wine tourism and well-being. In addition to the unique and extraordinary restoration of the old abandoned mining complex, which has transformed it into a special, magical place, nature has been responsible for bringing together and providing in a single, unprecedented place, in addition to the great geological wealth, a fertile natural wealth with agriculture/pomares, terrestrial and fluvial ecosystems, terrestrial and fluvial fauna and flora, vegetation, habitats for precious native and endemic species, biodiversity, the ecological corridor of the valley and the River Zêzere, in a wild state, pure and unspoilt air, the sounds and placidity of the River Zêzere, with which we directly border, in a navigable stretch connected to the GRZ - Grande Rota do Rio Zêzere, where the Master Plan envisages a future private beach and private river pier/pool, for water sports with kayaks, stand up paddle, dinghies and fishing, with several viewpoints where visitors can enjoy an extraordinary panoramic view of the "Towers" of the Serra da Estrela, Estrela Geopark - a natural oasis of tranquillity, surprising, dazzling, magnificent, enchanting, and truly welcoming, to be explored and visited, which will stay in the memory! The "MINAS da RECHEIRA" or "Mina do Alemão" mining complex covers more than 5 hectares and has several innovative and differentiating tourist attractions, including the "Journey through Time" visit pack, in which visitors/tourists are minimally equipped as "miners" and will enter another "dimension", to a time more than 50 years ago, which will arouse the curiosity and attention of visitors through Culture, History and Living and Emotional Mining Industrial Heritage, with a unique and innovative experience of a guided tour of various recovered mining galleries. Unique, differentiating and innovative wine tourism with various Wine Tasting Packs