The origin of the villages of Schist is lost in time ...

However, there are records of these villages since the reign of Afonso V and specifically on the Talasnal since 1589.

These villages were just small couples lost for centuries in the mountainous Beira Serra, whose principal activity of its people was the pastoral,

to subsistence farming and charcoal mining.

Today, after an intense period of emigration, mainly to America, started in the second half of the century XIX, the "ghost villages", return to simmer with people and hope on the encouraged tourism around the network of the "Villages of schist".

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