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Fermedo Castle House

Fermedo Castle House or Fermedo Castle Farm House is part of the cultural heritage of Fermedo, Arouca.

The place where it stands still contains traces of the period of Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. The Roman water basins around the House are testimony of that period.

At the start of the 5^th century, the Northern peoples established themselves there. They were led by a Gothic nobleman, Faramund, who gave his name to the land which evolved to its current name, Fermedo.

The House is located where, according to tradition, there was also once a Moorish Castle of which still remain traces of a strong wall. Its reconquest was marked by the presence of the Orders of Solomon’s Temple and Malta in the region.

The existence of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Pillar, attached to the House, is already mentioned since the 17^th century.

Fermedo Castle House was inhabited by noble families entitled “Lords of Fermedo”. There are records of it having been inhabited by direct ancestors in the paternal lineage of the great Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa.