One of the oldest populations of Portugal. Two hills, a valley, landscape with fantastic views and a millenarian past. It is Aljustrel, of the Lady of the Castle. We are in the heart of the Low Alentejo and the outsiders who dislocates themselves, looks at to its return and fascinates themselves here with the dastness of the fields and the ocean of the landscapes.

Aljustrel, old roman city Vipasca, called Al-luster by the Arabs, to which it was conquered, in 1234, in the reign of D. Sancho II, for D. Paio Peres Correia and the Knights of the Order of Santiago da Espada.

In last the two centuries, the harshness of the activity of mining involved all this region, molding to it the habits and the traditions.

Known since immemorial times for its mineral deposits, it does not have certanties when the mining will have started. However, the diverse existing occupations, since the age of Cobre, point out that the exploration has started, 3,000 years before Christ. It is with the Roman occupation between sécs. I and IV d.C. that it initiates the exploration in wide scale of the ore, that was  carried to Rome.

After the Roman occupation, these mines were left of being explored, but started again on a wide scale in 1849. Although temporarily desactivated, since 1993, the mine constitutes an important economic and cultural patrimónium.