Tourism and Leisure

The patrimonial wealth of Penamacor results fundamentally from its historical past, geographic and natural conditions of the territory. These two circumstances shaped, in turn, the culture, the frank, generous and hospitable character of its people. History The settlement is very old. Archeology gives us account of human habitats that go back to the Neolithic, but it is from the end of the 2nd Iron Age that the history of this territory begins to write. When the Romans arrive, they find strong resistance from the Portuguese tribes that live here, tenaciously opposing the powerful and well-equipped imperial legions for about a century. Without known writing, the little that we know of the Lusitanians comes to us mainly through the documentary and epigraphic sources of the Roman period. According to the present study of Roman occupation, this was a considerably populated region, based on dispersed settlements, where the couples and small farms predominated around some well-to-do villages and one or other large agglomerate (vicus ). After the fall of the empire, they followed the Visigothic and Arab dominions, of which there are few vestiges. With the Christian reconquest, at the end of the century. XII, and in subsequent centuries, the defensive and religious structures that now constitute the bulk of the historical heritage of Penamacor arise. Nature History and Nature is the slogan that spontaneously comes to mind when traveling through the municipality of Penamacor. The landscape diversity is well-known in the contrast between the north of green valleys and intensely forested hills, from where picturesque water courses descend, and the south, which opens to the plain of Castelo Branco, where the sobreiral dominates, with its characteristic ecosystems . The Nature Reserve of Serra da Malcata, with about 16348 ha of protected area, two thirds of which are integrated in the municipality of Penamacor, offers lovers of nature full of life and charm, regardless of the season of the year that you visit.