Viseu

I left Lamego and followed the N2. It struck me that N1, our most important road, from the times before highways, was one of the Santiago routes, and N2 was the other. Again, i was trying to follow N2 to Lamego, but it proved impossible, at times it was reused as an highway, so i ended up lost in Aquilino Ribeiro lands. He once called those places "terras do demo", the land of the devil. It seams appropriate, they to exhale a pagan's magical aura, and i can only imagine how it was going trough them in the times before roads and cars and electric suns.

I managed to get to Viseu before lunch. Took a small walk in the town an decided to have some food in a restaurant in front of the cathedral. After lunch i went to the visit it. It´s a big building with an administrative complex stating the power of region in long ago days. They have a statue of D. João II, the Perfect Prince, holding a book. He was the king behind D. Henrique, o Navegador, the one that used the power of the Order of Christ to make Portugal the first global power this world saw. We will find him again later in Tomar. The cathedral also had one thing interesting, like in Amarante they have the remains of S. Gonçalo, they have the mummified arm of of S. Teutónio (linked to Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal and possibly a Templar knight).

Going to the N2 again i noticed i had to go to Coimbra, and that it was going to be an eve more difficult task. Again, new roads have taken over. But before i left Viseu i passed through another army post in another concentration of the three power, the cultural, the army and the secular stating the importance of the place.