Visit the Pinela Tank

Visit the Quinta das Colmeias - Pinela

The "Quinta das Colmeias", a rural tourism space, located in the Parish of Pinela, is inserted in nature in its pure state, where you want to do sports, read a book and simply relax. Next to places of worship, Christian and Jewish, it facilitates the nourishment of the soul. The production of agricultural products in the biological way, allows the confection of traditional meals of excellent quality.

Visit the Sports Complex of Pinela

Visit the Church of St. Nicholas - Pinela

Visit the Pinela Community Oven

Pinela's old communal oven for baking crockery may be more than a century old.
It was for years the local finishing line of the work of the local cantareiras, usually used in a group, where all the artisan production of clay crockery of Pinela, realized by several pots, the pots, vases, pitchers, and other containers were cooked.
It was a real art to do the dishes. Tell the local people that out of this small oven leave a lot of crockery. The pots placed the pitchers and larger pots at the base and from there they filled until they reached the top, placing the smaller pieces inside the larger ones. The dishes came in mixed, each pot had its own mark so there were no confusions in the time to separate the pieces.
It was up to the men to fetch the firewood from the mountain to throw the kiln at very high temperatures. It was customary for the population to gather around the oven while it baked.
The oven is still in good condition and although it is not currently used, it remains a landmark of great importance for the cultural, social and economic identity of the locality.

Visit the Fontanário of Largo de Santo Estevão - Pinela

Visit the Castle of Alfenim - Pinela

The Castle of Alfenim, located in the Parish of Pinela was a large fortified settlement located on a quartzite crest that rises to 960 meters of altitude. This location gives you excellent geostrategic control over the surrounding embankment, which includes an extensive planar area. The inner platform presents a plant with an approximately subcircular configuration and is surrounded by a line of wall whose traces are easily detected from a slope and some rocky landslides. Generally, this line surrounds the town in all its extension. A surface survey allowed to collect some ceramic fragments that mark the occupation of this settlement between the Iron Age and the Middle Ages.