Detached villa, with privileged views over several mountains. With land of approximately 530 square meters. 5 minutes from the center of the village of Vila Nova de Poiares, and 2 minutes from various shopping places, such as: Cafes, pastry shops, restaurants, supermarket, etc. Vila Nova de Poiares is located in the center of Portugal, more specifically in the district of Coimbra between the mountains of Carvalho, São Pedro Dias and Magarrufe as well as the rivers Alva and Mondego. In administrative terms it borders the municipalities of Coimbra, Miranda do Corvo, Lousã, Gois, Arganil and Penacova. Parishes The municipality of Poiares consists of four parishes: Poiares (Santo André); St. Michael of Poiares; Arrifana and Lavegadas. The municipality occupies an area of about 85 km2, with a population density of more than 80 inhabitants per km2. Territory with history The vestiges of settlement of this territory date back to Prehistory, more specifically to the Neolithic period, between the year 5,000 and 2,000 BC. At the top of the Serra de São Pedro Dias we find a Dolmen that testifies to it, which is a monument classified as of national interest. The Romans also left their mark. There are records that tell us of a Roman bridge in the place of "Murcella". Here passed one of the most important roads, which made the connection from Coimbra to Bobadela, near Oliveira do Hospital. We can see the passage of Muslims in this space through the legends and toponyms of which are example, Moura Morta, Toca da Moura or Mouras Encantadas. We know that since the eighth and ninth centuries settlements have been established in this territory, which is proven in several documentary records referring to the possession by the Monastery of Lorvão. "Algazala", "Lauredo" and "Sautelo", are referred to in documents of 777, in a donation made by King Ordoño of Asturias to the Monastery of Lorvão. This space surrounded by three rivers, Mondego, Alva and Ceira, will have been the object of greed on the part of some "Lusos", who attracted by the temperate climate and captivated with the food diversity, meat of animals and fish of the rivers, here were settling. The villages were growing in the hills and on the banks of the rivers, especially the Mondego. Ancient documentation refers to the existence of Castros or Crastos, which would serve essentially to monitor the river traffic or to take refuge from the settlers. Hostels in Poiares It is in this context that the Albergaria de Poiares appears to us, full proof of the importance of these paths, providing support to pilgrims and travelers in the region of Beiras. Already in 1258, during the inquiries ordered to be carried out by King Afonso III, the Albergaria de Poiares is mentioned. The Albergarias were places where travelers and pilgrims were gathered, to whom some comfort was provided. These were pious institutions. The kings, generally occupied in these first years of the kingdom's life by the wars of the reconquest, left the way open for the action of the queens who thus assumed an important role in the care of the needy, particularly in these true hospitals of charity. The Albergaria de Poiares had its foundation by the hand of Queen D. Dulce, wife of King D. Sancho I. This queen bought the place of "Ervedal" and its term, to build there the Albergaria de Poiares that she had founded not far from Coimbra. We know that in 1210 King Sancho I left in Testament 200 "moravedis" to the Albergaria de Poiares. In the Tomb of Goods of 1589 of the University of Coimbra we can confirm the various forums that this University granted to the territories that are today belonging to the municipality of Vila Nova de Poiares, as well as the "Juradias" of Algaça or São Miguel that existed here. The territory of the current county had as owners not only Religious Institutions or Religious nature, but also nobles. Here had domains the Monastery of Lorvão, in the person of the Abbess Dona Catarina de Albuquerque, as well as the Monastery of Santa Cruz, and also the Monastery of Santa Clara, which in the sixteenth century appears to us as having intervened the Abbess Dona Beatriz da Silva. In some documents, such as the Charter of Foral given by Queen D. Dulce to the Albergaria de Poiares, in the month of May 1195, the existence of several religious houses and small convents is attested. Examples of this are the House of the Friars of Concha, today the place of Póvoa da Abraveia and the Convent of São Miguel de Poiares. Nobles, we can refer to the House of the Duke of Aveiro, Dom Diogo da Silveira, Count of Sortelha and Lord of Goes; Dom Diogo Manuel, Prior of Palmela, or Gaspar Juzarte and his wife from Montemor-o-Velho, who have couples who depart (divide), with "Omeres", belonging to the University of Coimbra. Also the Count of Mira, Lord of Penacova, Don Sancho de Noronha had dominions here. Lands of Poyares In 1590 the "head" of the Lands of Poyares was in the place of Arrifana. It was also in the first centuries of the building of the Nation that the name of the "Lands of Poiares" – "Vimieira a par de Poiares" – arose. A name that relates in a "passionate" and legendary way with D. Afonso Henriques, through a legend that tells the "feat" of the King of Portugal riding from the Old Cathedral of Coimbra to the "Lands of Poyares" to stop a Papal Cardinal who had excommunicated the Kingdom of Portugal. The Municipality of Poiares was born in the reign of D. Maria II, the result of administrative reorganization reforms carried out by the Setembrist Government ideologically oriented by Passos Manuel and promulgated in 1836. It had this county as its first designation: "Santo André de Poyares". Primitively, its borders were limited to the south by the river Ceira, had the Parish of Friúmes, today municipality of Penacova, the Parish of Semide on the right bank of the river Ceira today of the municipality of Miranda do Corvo and part of the Parish of Serpins today of the municipality of Lousã. In 1855, in the reign of D. Pedro V, due to influences foreign to the administrative authorities of the county, Poiares is "mutilated" passing these territories to be part of these neighboring municipalities. Alexandre Herculano, in his book "Scenes of a Year of My Life and Travel Notes" testifies to us: "The county of Poiares: a kind of English America: Liberalism of the inhabitants. St. Andrew's Village is his Washington – barren but cultivated land." We can consider the space of the parish of Arrifana of paramount importance until the eighteenth century, namely as a point of passage and connection of the banks of the river Mondego to the most important Varas in the interior of the territory. The river traffic of Mondego, departed and arrived from Figueira da Foz to the Port of Raiva. From Louredo the "Barcas Serranas", loaded with bush and carqueja, wood chips and other products, went down the river towards Coimbra and Figueira da Foz.