The staircase is climbed slowly, step by step, up to 760 meters. And when you reach the top of the Nossa Senhora da Assunção mountain, in Vilas Boas, the horizon opens up all at once: within a radius of one hundred kilometers, you can see the Montesinho Natural Park, Mirandela, the Bornes mountain range and, far away, already in Spain, Sanabria.

Some believe that in an olive grove in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, there are olive trees that were planted when King Afonso Henriques was still planning to conquer Lisbon.