One of the BEST
preserved Jewish quarters in Portugal

This village was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in Portugal. Based on historical documents, it is known that somewhere in the XIV century, the Jewish populations started to be segregated to a Jewish quarter located near the castle. To our days, there are still many visible marks of Jewish presence in streets of the old Jewish quarters, being the one called, The Fountain of the Village, perhaps the one baring the deepest significance, for it stands in the square where all the streets of the old Jewish quarter converged.

The Old Fountain

Due to its proximity to the Spanish boarder, this community was greatly increased with the Jews expelled from Castela in 1492.

Castelo de Vide

The village of Castelo de Vide, is nowadays, one of the most relevant places in Portugal to understand how life occurred in a medieval Jewish quarter. The building thought to have been the synagogue, is today a museum with a permanent exhibition of the old Sephardic community of Castelo de Vide. This was also the place where in 1986, the President of Portugal formally apologized to all Jews for the persecutions withstood in Portugal.

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