Cividade Hill

The hill, along with São Félix, was used in the Middle Ages as the boundary of Varzim: Verazim ... subtus mons civitas Terroso discurrentes aquas ad mare, territorio Brachara (June 25, 1202).

[4] Cividade, with São Félix Hill, extends from the small Serra de Rates mountain range.

The migrations of Turduli and Celtici proceeding from the South of the Iberian Peninsula heading North were the reason for the improvement of the defensive systems of the castros around 500 BC.

[5] In Portugal, these barrows are called mamoa, from the Latin mammula, given to them by the Romans because of their shape, similar to the breast of a woman (mama in Portuguese).

Terroso is a picturesque historical village with its parish church built in 1718, that includes in its assets the 16th century icon of Our Lady of Candeias, a Coimbra School sculpture.

In the modern period, eucalypts have been planted in pulpwood plantations, which Póvoa de Varzim City Hall has been trying to eradicate and attempting to replace it with native flora that research proved to have existed in the area.

Carbon analysis found in archaeological layers of Cividade de Terroso allowed the identification of twenty native species of trees and shrubs.