Sertã

Castelo Branco

Portugal

6100-653

Rustic land of 18000m2 with corn and arable cultivation (pine and olive).Land with a water mine, facing a river, has built a water mill and a support house. Fertile land abundant in water and great for cultivation.Pedrógão Pequeno (formerly Pedrógam Pequeno) is a Portuguese parish and village in the municipality of Sertã, with an area of 42.75 km² and 706 inhabitants (2012 census). Its population density is 16.5 inhabitants/km².It belongs to the Schist Villages network.HistoryPedrógão Pequeno was founded by the Roman consul Aulus Curcio in 150 BC. It was conquered by the Moors on August 4, 718 and reconquered by King Afonso II on March 13, 1216.The village belonged to the Order of the Temple and, first of all, the term of Sertã, it was donated to the Order of the Hospital, along with it in 1174 by D. Afonso Henriques. In 1419 it was still from the border of Sertã, but it did not take long to achieve a relative autonomy, which at that time was granted to all the small villages of the country.The Prior of Crato, D. Vasco de Ataíde, with a view to benefiting a protégé of the monarch more than to execute an act of administration of real interest to his Order, gave in 1448 Pedrógão Pequeno de emprazamento, with all the civil and criminal jurisdiction, rents and jurisdictions, to Diogo da Silveira, private clerk and advisor to King D. Afonso V, which elevated it to the category of a village.The municipality was made up of the parishes of Carvalhal and Pedrógão Pequeno. It was suppressed in 1834.