Torre (Serra da Estrela)
24.3 km at 6.5% from Covilhã to the Torre (1993 m), the highest point of mainland Portugal: steep streets out of the town, then the long N339 past Penhas da Saúde onto the bare granite plateau. A regular summit finish of the Volta a Portugal.
- Start: Covilhã
- Length: 24.3 km
- Elevation gain: 1,585 m
- Average gradient: 6.5%
- Max gradient: 13%
- At 1993 m the Torre is the highest point of mainland Portugal; only Mount Pico in the Azores is higher.
- The Volta a Portugal first finished at the Torre in 1971, with a win for Joaquim Agostinho.
- Just below the summit is Portugal's only ski resort.
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