Medieval village built on top of an isolated hill 820 meters above sea level, offers a splendid view over the fields and hills around. This ancient fortified town  fully recovered under the Recovery Program Historical Villages shows signs of human occupation dating back to the Paleolithic.

Although the seat of the municipality has passed to Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo the town continues to have  interest grounds  such as the main church, founded by friars Hospitallers in 1192 and dedicated to Our Lady of Rocamador; cistern, served by two doors, a Gothic and  a Moorish, the pillory and the clock installed on an ancient tower.

Now the castle ruins reveal the anger of the population when at the end of the reign of Philip II, burned the old palace of Christopher de Moura, one of the defenders of the legitimacy Spanish lands lusas