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Carvalhal Miúdo

A large modern sign points down an old tarmaced road almost completely covered in pine needles. This winds down to the little hamlet of Carvalhal Miúdo (meaning ‘small oak tree grove’). In the population census of 1527, ‘Carualhall meudo’ is listed as having two permanent dwellings. Today, the village consists of two roads, (one with many steps, the other narrow and tarmaced), and small xisto houses, some renovated, some with red sandstone stonework on the windows and doors and some even with granite. But at the bottom of the village, is a large ruined quinta.. This was the house of the richest family of the area, called Neves. They had a lot of land and cultivated it with maize and olives, and whatever the land would produce. The quinta had horses and oxen, many servants, and the villagers worked on the fields. They produced so much on this quinta that people came even from Cimo de Alvém to buy maize and olive oil. There is now very little left to show of the prosperity the village once had. A narrow track leads down to the river Ceira, where the village had its own mill in a place called Porto Ribeiro.

 
     
 
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