The Rural Village That Helped Defeat Hitler: Regoufe, Portugal
Walking tour of Regoufe, a small rural village near Arouca, northern Portugal, with a surprising past tied to World War II. Discover how this remote village became a strategic hotspot due to its rich tungsten mines, supplying the Allies (Britain and the United States) with this critical war material. Tungsten, also called wolfram, was essential for making projectiles and penetrating ammunition. See the silent remnants of this mining era that still stand today.
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0:00 Intro to Regoufe
0:55 Start of the walk
2:36 Village of Regoufe
20:09 Regoufe’s tungsten mines
29:41 Road trip do Regoufe
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25 Comments
Miguel uma novidade roger Schmidt foi despedido do nosso Benfica
Muito obrigada 👍. E verdade que nessa época Portugal vendeu tungsten à Alemanha Hitleriana. Daí o ouro Suisso que o Hitler pagava a Portugal de Salazar. Não conhecia o nome da terra. Muito interessante. Boa semana 👏
No fundo Salazar foi inteligente. Jogou com um pau de dois bicos. E sempre em contacto com Churchill. A aliança com a Inglaterra é a mais antiga de todas as alianças na história
Lindo video Miguel parabéns, vc sempre mostrando a cultura linda de Portugal
Miguel another greadt video. Thanks for your hard work.
I would love to see a video without having to see a picture of Hitler or Salazar on the cover. Disgusting, I'm unfollowing.
Miguel thank you for this forgotten history lesson, very well appreciated, but "genetically" there's no trace of any Visigoths from the Balkans in Portugal, should be more like "in the Visigoth era" instead of literal "Visigoths" in Portugal, historians like to place certain people under certain titles, Barbarians lived in every corner of the Roman empire not just in the Balkans and some how made their way into the extremities of western Europe and from paganism became Christians forgot their language and culture and started building churches.
People today like to imagine in ancient times people moved around as much as they do today which is a farse.
The world will never know who would have won a football soccer match between the Allies and the Axis Powers at Regoufe’s “Tungsten Stadium”, but we know who lost the war.
las,aciu toki grazu pasivazinejima,o del kaimelio liudna ziuret i tuos griuvesius tokioje grazioje vietoje,aciu ir sekmes❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Muito linda essa aldeia!!🇵🇹
Região linda e desolada. Vale um bom passeio de moto até lá
Such a remote place. Did they process the tungsten in situ or transport the ore by lorries to another facility?
Bom dia! So much has been written about the El Camino de Santiago, from France to Spain. I would be very interested in seeing a series of your videos regarding the Portuguese Camino. I’ve seen in previous videos of yours where you’ve seen the “shell” symbol of the Camino path. It would make a long series but could be broken into smaller segments as needed and for convenience. Good luck on whatever you choose to do. We can’t wait to see it. 😊
Olá Miguel para já… Um resto de um bom domingo… Excelente vídeo é muito o Miguel mostrar pequenas aldeias mesmo que não sejam turísticas! Há sempre algo diferente e bonito para se ver e todas elas tem a sua história. Obrigada🤗pelo excelente trabalho, fico esperando novo vídeo 😊Uma boa semana 🙂
So enjoy your beautiful videos. Grandchildren visited Portugal a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful time. Special especially as catching up on their Portuguese heritage ❤ best wishes from South Africa
Really really an interesting video. Thanks
Ola Miguel ! mais um vidéo excelente 😉👍👍👍👍
Amigo Miguel 😇 que maravilha de Aldeia! Gostei das casas das montanhas é tudo um sonho lindo de ver! À estrada é de tirar o fôlego que maravilha de passeio estou encantada com tanta beleza! Parabéns amigo por seu trabalho magnífico! 😁❤ Boa semana Deus te ilumine!🙏🏾🙏🏾
Clean fresh air. So peaceful, and the sound of nature is amazing. I imagine there was no covid outbreaks except when the tourists invaded the bigger cities. My ancestors were from Gumaraes, further north. I can't wait to visit. I don't speak the language, only Spanish.
In as much as Salazar's Dictatorship was bad for Portugal, there was a silver lining, the fascist regime kept Portugal neutral and out of WW2. As long as Portugal supplied Nazi Germany with the wolfram/tungsten it wanted, Portugal was safe. It was also ideal, another fascist neutral country, Spain, was in the way. Imagine if Hitler had turned all his attention West, never mind Russia, and sent his war machine to invade Spain and Portugal. From my Trás os Montes village house where I was born, even today, I can still see the scars on the landscape, of the wolfram mine operating there during WW2. It was Brittish run, incidently. Had Germany invaded and taken over the mine, I am sure my father, in his twenties, along with all the men of the village, would have been sent to the mine and worked to death. I wouldn't exist today. My village wouldn't exist today, most probably. Um video fabuloso, muito obrigado, fez-me pensar na casa, na aldeia, e num Portugal rural de grande valor histórico que está a desaparecer. Graça a essas paredes que testemunham do passado, do que éra Portugal, do Portugal onde eu nasci.
Olá Miguel, mais um ótimo vídeo. Achei a vila encantadora. Mesmo as ruínas são bonitas. O passeio foi bom. Um abraço 😅❤😊
Boa tarde acabei de assistir esse vídeo maravilhoso como amei a aldeia é belíssima se eu pudesse ia morar lá seus vídeos são belíssimos parabéns pelo seu trabalho excelente gratidão 🙏🙏🙏🍁🍁🍂🍂☘️☘️🌴🌴🌿🌿
Ouvir aqueles passarinhos e o barulho de água corrente foi extremamente relaxante! E o lugar é muito interessante, bem como sua história. Obrigada, Miguel!
Qual é a pronúncia correta do nome da Aldeia?
Abraços e ótima semana!
Adorei o vídeo, muito bom conhecer esses lugares de Portugal, sou da cidade de São Paulo BR ,bjs
Video lindo, dia lindo, perfeito, parabéns.