Fortified village that had at least five lines of walls. In excavations carried out in this town were laid bare some cores with circular and rectangular constructions, floors, walls of rooms, walls, late-Romanesque and Ceramic grinding wheels of manual Mills, among other vestiges. It is also known as Castro da Cividade.

Modernity and the past intersect in the surroundings of the Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, with an imposing fountain that marks the already distant history of the city. Although it is not possible to define with certainty the time of its construction, the Fountain features elements typical of the Baroque and its structure has side pilasters, three spouts and a curved pediment with the royal arms.

The Nossa Senhora da Apresentação church is from 1606, being placed, at this time, the baptistery. In the end of the XVII century, beginning of the XVIII century, the façade is decorated with two azulejos panels and the inside is all dressed with golden woodcarving, standing out a gothic virgin, in alabaster. It suffered repair works already in the XX century.

Built in 1323, presents the inside of a single nave covered by Mat ceiling and six altars. On the triumphal arch cut a cross of the order of Christ. In the side altars and the side altarpieces of gilt, end of the 17th century. In the epistle side is the Baptistry, with seventeenth-century stone font, and a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Piedade.

Não se sabe ao certo a data da sua construção, pois o seu culto é anterior à nacionalidade, havendo indicação de ser anterior ao Século XIII, data em que Vila Cova pertencia à paróquia de Santa Maria de Seia.

At the centre of the Mouzinho de Albuquerque Square (Campo Novo), there is a statue of D. Pedro V on a pedestal. It was placed at the Campo de Santa Ana (Central Avenue) in 1879 and moved to the Campo Grande around 1915. It is a reproduction of another statue existing at the Praça da Batalha, in Porto, a work of the sculptor Teixeira Lopes, father.

Marcelino Antonio da Silva Mesquita was born in Cartaxo, in 1856. Despite having a degree in medicine, was in the letters found its splendor. They join their dramatic work to the period which is positioned between the final phase of naturalism and the neorromântico period, but his legacy also has comic works and contemporary theatre. Died in 1919.

Este cruzeiro encontra-se no centro da praça e tem cerca de 5 metros de altura. A sua construção aparenta ser de construção recente, possui uma base de ornamentação simples assente em 3 degraus e uma cruz de Cristo no topo.

Neste restaurante simples e espaçoso os pratos regionais são a estrela da casa. O cabrito assado, o javali na caçarola e o bacalhau à casa fazem uma refeição densa que termina com os clássicos arroz doce ou leite creme.

Este espaço do chef argentino Chakall, localizado no El Corte Inglés, presta homenagem em vida à sua mãe, Susana Maria Fisch - Susy. Serve as famosas empanadas argentinas e outras iguarias icónicas da gastronomia do seu país natal com o mundo.