Mount the fence was a fortified town with residential and military function, being deployed in an isolated elevation dominating Sendim da Serra, in the extreme East of the ridge line that starts at the Castle de Gouveia, which is believed to be related. At the top is visible an alignment of stones of schist, forming a glacis that defines a line of walls which surrounded the Hill. The structuring of the settlement and the construction of the wall date back to the iron age, being occupied as defensive redoubt in the high middle ages. In the 20TH century, part of …
The spontaneous vegetation, translated an extensive pine forest, is one of the attractions of this classified site. However, the interest in the site does not end at this point. On its Summit, the chapel of St. Bartholomew, or São Brás, is a place of pilgrimage and re-chroming. Incidentally, is well-known around the legend of the image of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré, closely linked to the site. Archaeological point of view castro prehistoric here deployed is an element to discover through the landscape particularly interesting.
A mount on a plane, surrounded by cork oak trees and cultivated all around the residential building and the farming backups. It has a garden of simple lines, classical, with adapted bush elements and water elements that are used for irrigation and control the temperature around the house.
