VILLAGES: VILLARDECIERVOS.

Villardeciervos

Villardeciervos belongs to the municipality of Carballeda in Zamora, found in the base of the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range (National Game Reserve).

Villardeciervos is of great historic value and in fact, in 1987 it was declared a Collection of Historic-Artistic buildings. Its well-preserved buildings, numerous fountains, narrow lanes and the Roman way, A Bracara Asturicam, that joins Braga and Astorga (later named XVII Way of Antonio Pío’s route), makes us easily envisage how people would have lived there in the past.

No doubt you’re thinking: How can narrow lanes help us imagine how people lived there in the past? Well, quite a lot, actually, because these lanes were built as camouflage in the days when goods were smuggled over from near-by Portugal.

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