Although the history of  the  village of Vale de Egas goes back over 500 years, and it is listed in the census of 1527 as having two substantial dwellings, the village today is almost totally shrouded in brambles. The village was reliant on a spring a little way up the valley from the village, but after the planting of eucalyptus trees on the hills above the village, the spring became less reliable, and the village’s inhabitants left. Around the village there are extensive areas of olive trees, cherry trees, orange trees and vines, now abandoned.