Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province

Trás -os- Montes e Alto Douro (English about: Behind - the mountains and Upper Douro ) was from 1936 to 1976 one of the eleven provinces of Portugal. They exist today only in the vernacular, or historically based terms.

Vila Real was the capital of the province, which included the present-day districts of Vila Real and Bragança, plus four circles ( Concelhos ) of today's district Viseu ( Armamar, Lamego, São João da Pesqueira and Tabuaço ), and a circle of the District of Guarda ( Vila Nova de Foz Côa ). Its neighboring provinces were Minho ( west ), Douro Litoral (southwest ), and Beira Alta ( south ), and the Spanish provinces of Ourense ( north ), Zamora ( east ) and Salamanca ( southeast).

The province was the one by the subregion Alto Douro (upper Douro ), characterized with its extensive wine -growing regions in the Douro, on the other by the archaic, sparsely populated and isolated highlands Trás -os- Montes (behind- the-Hills ) which is in the foothills the Castilian Plateau belongs.