Castelo Branco
Monsanto castle, like those who have been deployed in this region, have been built by the Templars, whom D. Afonso Henriques, gave this land to the Arabs after the reconquest. The rock mass where the castle is deployed, it could have been a prehistoric fort, later occupied by the Romans, but this fortification only appears […]
The Jewish Museum of Belmonte, is a museum that depicts the long history of the Jewish community in the region that resisted long years and centuries of religious persecution. It is the first museum of its kind in Portugal, located in the last redoubt of criptojudaica community then installed around the fifteenth century. The museum […]
This is a unique monument lytic currently in ruins, over the centuries has attracted the attention of onlookers and scholars, raising many different legends and theories around him. One of the traditions, for example, states that the building would have been a prison with a hundred cells (hence the name), which would have been captive […]
The community of Belmonte houses an important feature of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the Jewish resistance to religious intolerance in the Iberian Peninsula. In the sixteenth century, when the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of the Spanish and Portuguese land by Catholic kings and Manuel, a law […]
It is believed that the early human occupation of the site dates back to a prehistoric fort, possibly Romanized, to believe the testimonies of this period, abundant in the region. There is insufficient evidence in favor of its subsequent occupation. Some scholars claim to be this town the birthplace of Wamba, the last great king […]
Near the border, the town founded by Gualdim Parents have been the perfect space to serve as a refuge for Jews in 1492, were expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs. But what stands out among other Penamacor borderer lands are not Jewish traces left by this ancient community but that it is the birthplace […]
