Fojo do Lobo de Fafião

It is a granite structure of interlocking walls, the circular pit. Has the particularity to the absence of structural cápias form the rim at the top of the wall, about 64 feet long and 2.17 meters of average height, revealing the boca do fojo to its ending upward slope.
It is believed it was used especially in winter, when farmers drove cattle goats and cattle to mount low, located southwest of the village and bounded naturally by the rivers of Fafião and Cávado. The cova do fojo was shrouded with wood prepared horizontally and a canopy, Crown easily but anybody by the Wolf. The Raiders, armed with guns, prevented the escape of the Wolf through the waters of the rivers, guided him to the fojo, where the men were ready to shoot.
No one knows for sure its date of construction, believed to date back to the 18th century, knowing only that it was recovered in the mid-19th century. Suffered after maintenance and cleaning in the decades of 1980 and 1990.