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.

The Cavalinho: the first open-air Palaeolithic engraving in Europe.

The history of olive oil in Trás-os-Montes isn't just found in books. In some villages, it's inscribed in the stones of an olive press, in the iron of a press, in the memory of those who still remember seeing oxen turning the mill. Lavandeira, in the municipality of Carrazeda de Anciães, is one of those villages.