House 2 bedrooms Belmonte - equipped kitchen

House in a privileged location in the pillory of the historic town of Belmonte.
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Belmonte is a municipality almost as old as the country itself. The town of Belmonte was granted a charter in 1199 and is situated in the panoramic Monte da Esperança (formerly Montes Crestados), on whose rockiest hill its castle was built at the end of the 12th century. Together with the castles of Sortelha and Vila de Touro, they formed the defensive line of the Alto Côa until the signing of the Treaty of Alcanices (1297), supported at the rear by the natural wall of the Serra da Estrela and the Zêzere Valley. Due to the wars against the Leonese and Castilians, Belmonte Castle was improved during the reigns of D. Afonso III, D. Dinis and D. João I. The bravery and loyalty of the Cabrais family was always legendary and feared, especially that of its first Mayor – Fernão Cabral, who, once appointed definitively and hereditaryly in 1466 by D. Afonso V, transformed the castle into a fortified manor house, where his son Pedro Álvares Cabral spent his first years of life. In the 13th century, there is evidence of a prosperous Jewish community, responsible for the existence of a synagogue, of which there remains an inscription dated 1296, which probably lived in a Jewish quarter located in the current Morocco district. As a result of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs, this community probably grew until, in 1496, King Manuel I decreed their forced conversion to Catholicism, followed by a series of persecutions and the creation of a crypto-Jewish community that survived over the centuries, maintaining its rituals and traditions. It was also the same monarch who renewed the charter of Belmonte in 1510. In 1989, the Jewish community of Belmonte was officially created, and its synagogue was inaugurated in 1997. It is currently one of the few communities with a Rabbi.