Penedo da Forca
Large Boulder for compliance with penalty issued by the Court which is still known today Penedo da Gallows which was where they used to hang the condemned. There is a stone erected on top of a rock where there are traces of it exist still other stone. This Rock is a high point of the village sighted throughout the village, so that the death row stay visible, serving as example for wrongdoers.
Is in degraded state, with some of the constituent stones of the place of execution out of place.
Contacts
Bairro das Eiras
3460-452,São Miguel do Outeiro
- tel:232811110232811110
- email: [email protected]
- Difficult external parking
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Characteristics
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