BUSSACO, SERRA DE, a mountain range on the frontiers of the Aveiro, Coimbra and Vizeu districts of Portugal. The highest point is the Ponta de Bussaco (1,795ft.), with a magnifi cent view over the Serra da Estrella, the Mondego valley and the Atlantic ocean. Luso (pop. 1,870), a village celebrated for its hot mineral springs, is the nearest railway station. Bussaco's hotel, built in the Manueline style, encloses the buildings of a secular ized Trappist monastery, founded in 1268. The convent woods have long been famous for their cypress, plane, evergreen, oak, cork and other ancient forest trees. A bull of Pope Gregory XV. (1623), anathematizing trespassers and forbidding women to ap proach, is inscribed on a tablet at the main entrance ; another bull, of Urban VIII. (1643), threatens with excommunication any per son harming the trees. In 1873 a monument was erected on the southern slopes of the Serra to commemorate the battle of Bus saco in which the French, under Marshal Massena, were defeated by the British and Portuguese, under Lord Wellington, on Sept.
27, 181o.