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Hi first of all this is a HIGH RISK season due to the FIRES so I strongly advice not to do wild camping. The north and centre of the country is less dense of population, but also now is holiday season so expect all the Portuguese living outside, mainly from France, Switzerland etc... to gather visiting families and the small villages are all or most part part of them fully packed of humans.
Enough said I suggest to postponed your touring/wild camping to Portugal in either September/October or next year from March to May. that is less hot.
I did mine from start in Santander(Cantábria), Picos de Europa National Park, Leon did a bit of the Camino, all through secondary roads Carreteras most part empty and cross all way down and got in Portugal near Bragança.
In Portugal I did the same and took the secondary roads (Estradas Secundárias), all the way to Lisbon where I'm from.
There are some cycle routes that use the old train lines in the north centre and then a long one along the Atlantic coast.
http://ciclovia.pt, the website in only in portuguese so have to use the google translate or similar to understand. Is organize by area that which one have the subdivisions the country so you have North (Norte), Centre (Centro), Lisboa area and then the South Alentejo and Algarve geographic areas.
Hope I give enough information for you trip!