History of Fajão

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Fajão, is located at the northern end of the Municipality, is 20 kilometers from the town of Pampilhosa da Serra and occupies an area of 6,570 hectares 

According with Pinho Leal, Fajão, Faiões and Fajões are corruption of proper name (Goth) Fayão.

Fajão was municipality , with 808 fires. Before your withdrawal as such, on 24 October 1885, had six parishes, two in the bishopric of Coimbra and four in the Guard city. The bishopric Coimbra were: Fajão and Teixeira; the guard's were: Dornelas, Janeiro de Baixo, Unhais-o-Velho and Vidual of Cima. This territory was inhabited in very remote ages, as its manyarchaeological sites, noted in the Survey Archaeology in the Municipality of Pampilhosa da Serra, of Carlos Batata and Filomena Gusmão.

The Penedos of Fajão "Fajão's Rocks" are in the Raseira, flat zone surrounded by back by granite outcrops. The legend and the scarce existing bibliography say that the Moors lived in this plane, surrounded by bushes; when the Christians tried to expel them, they camouflaged themselves in the bushes and cornered them in the widest part (among the three peaks), a place that is now known as the Door of Falsity. (...)

Other legendary data are those that refer that the Cave of Raseira crosses the river Ceira and connects to the mines of Coiços, Casal Novo and Relvas de Teixeira (already in the county of Arganil).

Another legend says that when they built the road to Cavaleiros de Baixo, an inscription was destroyed that said the guardsman of a dangerous man was murdered, who transported him to be judged by the people.

A prehistoric anthropomorphic idol was found in Relvas and dated as being from the Bronze Age. Circular patches of dark earth with traces of charcoal were found in the same spot, and near it was a bronze ax, thought to be a bead, which would place it in the Final Bronze. Given the proximity (two kilometers of the rocks), we must understand that there may be a close connection between the pottery found here and the objects found in Relvas. The non-appearance of lytic material at both sites seems to reinforce this assumption.

The existence of several mines, although not found anything that dates, could be related to the mining of alluvial gold and / or of lode and also of the lead, during the Final Bronze.