Its name literally meaning "Mountain Range of the Star", Serra da Estrela is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal, surpassed only by the Pico mountain in the Azores. Its highest point stands in a plateau, where there is a ski resort. This makes Serra da Estrela an awesome winter destination, although this mountain range can be as scenic and entertaining in the summertime too. Serra da Estrela actually comprises a Natural Park, whose landscape shows visible marks of ice action in the past, like ravines, lakes of glacial origin and U-shapped valleys, like the Zêzere Valley in the first picture.





