Situated in a mountain top in the north of Penas Róias village, its Castle had played an important role in this territory defense against muslim incursions and in the affirmation of the borderer line of Trás-os-Montes against the neighbour kingdom in the course of our nationality formation. The two visible lumps indict that this fortification was built in the beginning of XII century.
After the royal donation to the Templários, in 1145, Penas Róias Castle had received important structural reformations in the end of the half part of XII century, patent in the Donjon, situated in the middle of the fortress in which acted the closed operations.0
After the change between the king and the “Templários”, in the year of 1457, Álvaro Pires de Távora obtains the Castle, and in the engraving of Duarte d’ Armas in the year of 1509 the fortress was well preservated. In the year of 1759 got back to the Crown and with the extinction of the old Penas Róias Council in the year of 1836, its ruin process was accelareted.
National Monument since 1945.
Location: Mogadouro
