Asphalt and Landscapes: Motorcycle Tour Through Northern Portugal’s Peneda-Gerês, Serra do Alvão & Douro

You come around a blind hairpin and the valley unfolds: a checkerboard of terraced vineyards, a river threaded silver in the sunlight, and the road still climbing. The engine hums a steady companion as you pass stone villages whose whitewashed houses lean toward the lanes, as if eavesdropping on every passing rider. This is Northern Portugal on two wheels — a full-day loop that stitches Peneda-Gerês’s high ridgelines to the chestnut forests of Serra do Alvão and the cork-scented terraces of the Douro.