[2] The plan for the park intended to keep the essential rural values of the location, with landscaping and environmental improvements.

[2] A small pre-existing water stream was used to improve landscaping of the park, by enlarging the rivulet banks and a building a small dam, thus creating a new lake that during construction immediately became a natural habitat for several species of migratory birds.

Significant part of the picturesque woods were destroyed when the then IC1 (now A28 motorway/freeway) was constructed in the early 1990s, damaging even Castro culture ruins.

It founded Lactogal with other two cooperatives and produced, in 2011 alone, 525 million liters of milk, 60% of the national production.

[4] The park started being built in 2003 and was inaugurated, on March 19, 2012, by the Portuguese Minister of Agriculture, Assunção Cristas and Braga archbishop, Jorge Ortiga.