The first documentary reference to Vidigueira dates from 1255, when, having been founded the Monastery of St. Cucufate, it's parish was established, and set it's limits, making reference to this town in it's scripture.

As part of the repopulation of the border region of the Guadiana promoted by D. Afonso III (1248-1279), the village and its fields have been donated to Master Thomas, treasurer of the Cathedral of Braga, who would have built the castle as well as the old matrix, the Church of Santa Clara.

The development of this calm and peaceful village situated in a typical Alentejo plain and mainly agricultural, is mainly due to the quality of the wine produced here, already famous in the fifteenth century.

On the outskirts of town there are numerous accounts of the occupation of the region since ancient times, like the Megalitic monuments, the Ruins of the Roman villa St. Cucufate or the Roman ruins of Zambujal and Monte da Cegonha.

O que fazer

• Roman Ruins of St. Cucufate;

• Vidígueira Castle ruins;

• Belvedere of the chapel of St. Peter;

• Geodesic Mark do Geão belvedere;

• Roman Ruins of Zambujal and Monte da Cegonha;

• Megalitic Monument;

• Vidigueira Municipal Museum, with an extensive ethnographic collection of the county;