At Barroca, the history of Schist has been written for millennia, its remote ancestors engraved magical geometric figures and animals on rocks on the shores of the Zêzere. Walls, terraces, mills, olive presses and houses, from the most modest to the most elegant, were built in schist. Fortunately, many of them have kept their features and characteristics, and Barroca is therefore included in the network of Schist Villages.

A wide river front and a pedestrian passage over the river, invites you to walk along the river. If you go upstream, after a wide bend, where the Zêzere flows rapidly, you will find another reality: the monumental heaps of Cabeça do Pião (Silvares). From a natural landscape we go into an industrial landscape.