The village, belonging to the village of Covas do Rio, gets stuck in a valley of Serra de Sao Macario at an altitude of 450 m. Around him is a huge amount of oil, stained green and the gorse bush, here and there dotted with a few patches of pine and few of the Eucalyptus. Looking on from the valley are visible the fertile fields and green. Nearby, the Portal of Hell lurking …
Only in the eighties of the last century opened up the tar road and arrived later. Does not follow from there to anywhere else. But forest road (the popular estradão) you can enjoy a nice stroll Covas do Rio, passing by Serraco.
It consists mostly of shale buildings, including the roof which is made by boards of the same rock (slate). Prepared by winding streets, as a rule, the houses have a floor which house the animals and agricultural implements and a first floor dwelling.
58 people live here they have in grazing their main source of income. The approximately 2000 goats climb every day, in a show unusual and surprising, the various slopes, and to store them, the residents organized “partner” that take turns at the same time and as a community in the custody of the livestock (progreiro) .
In the wake of the valley lie the “Land of Bread. They are fertile and with plenty of water that runs off the mountain for a few streams in the summer is used and distributed in the fields irrigated by a traditional. It is also the water that gives strength to walk the stones, the age-old water mills, where it proceeds to grind the grain to make bread.
Existed in the village, formerly, three mills, one of which the Community is now in recovery.
The Restaurant Association of the Friends of Covas do Monte, by the recovery of a former elementary school, deserves a closer look and may indulge in some regional specialties, such as fireworks or the kid and roast veal.
Geographical position:
40° 53′ 9.50″ N, 8° 6′ 0.77″ W
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