Vila Pouca de Aguiar

Aguiar lies between the Alvão and Padrela mountains in northern Portugal. The area preserves traces of ancient settlement and of the Roman gold mines at Tresminas and Jales, where open workings and underground galleries were supplied by aqueducts. In the Middle Ages the parish of São Salvador de Jugal belonged to the land of Aguiar de Pena; its settlement later took the name Vila Pouca. A royal inquiry in the thirteenth century recorded farms and smaller places within the parish.