At 1 993m, Torre is the highest point in Portugal, and stands in a barren landscape with little grass. There is a vast panoramic view over the crop of reliefs of the Serras da Estrela and da Lousa from the centre, marked by a plinth bearing a cross..

The Serra da Estrela is the highest massif in the country (the highest point at Torre: 1,993m). Above its cultivated and wooded slopes the peaks are dry and riddled with large boulders... Tourism is now developing in this previously isolated region. ..