A new addition to the art tour itinerary this year: Ponte de Lima, up near the northern border with Spain in the Minho region of Portugal. Famous as the oldest continuously inhabited village in Portugal and one of the most picturesque.
While the centrepiece is the old Roman bridge (ponte) over the River Lima, the town is also on the Camino de Santiago, which we non-painters can now claim to have walked (about 200 metres of it).
The painters spent the day by the river while we explored the town, the lovely museum (dedicated to St Francis’ Third Way), and the quite stunning gardens on the other side of the river.
Oh, and we also had lunch accompanied by some bottles of excellent vinho verde .
