Town hall

The Sauceda" is an ancient establishment of bandits in the heart of the Alcornocal.

The Sauceda nailed in the Saw of the Cistern, this name that him comes like ring to the finger, for being a real “recipiente ” that receives the moisture of the Atlantic winds, allowing her existence of an exuberant vegetation.

On the origin of the name there are diverse theories, bearing in mind that in the area the willows do not abound too much. The most credible it alludes to a degeneration of the word “desauciada ”, because in times it was a bandits' refuge of any nature that they looked for shelter in the inaccessibility of the area, forging it history of this place.

It was a focus of Moorish uprisings in times of the Kings Catholics, and since then and up to relatively recent epochs, it has served as residence to bandits, deserters, smugglers, poachers and other nations to the margin of the Law.

The town was settling and already in the century twenty one constructed herself chapel, school and cemetery.

The cork oaks and the pines abound and the sotobosque is very thick, with some really impenetrable areas.

In this place there exists the possibility of renting the stones houses, type huts, service of guide or transport in all area. They exist a big variety of possible excursions to the saw of the Cistern, here very nearby like the ascension to the craggy rock of the Vulture and others places