In Póvoa de Varzim, the Greenway follows 19 km of the former, now decommissioned, Póvoa–Famalicão railway line. Starting near the Metro station, close to the beaches, it gently climbs inland. A short distance away lies the Cividade de Terroso, an ancient hillfort settlement, before the route passes through Laúndos at the foot of Mount S. Félix. In S. Pedro de Rates, a village renowned for its Romanesque church, classified as a National Monument, the Greenway intersects the Portuguese Way of Saint James. Crossing an attractive landscape of farmland, forests and restored former railway halts, the route reaches Balasar, home of Blessed Alexandrina, from where it continues towards Vila Nova de Famalicão.