Parish seat urban center. Village located on a hillside. Medieval root settlement with organic layout. Urban implantation in total harmony with the territory, using the terrace in the implantation of the houses and farms. Use of strictly local materials, especially shale. Organic layout revealing an almost regular organization in the way it adapts to the topography.

Founding period in the Middle Ages - despite the lack of documentation, it is thought that this period will begin the structuring of Piódão, with the first inhabitants in the valley region, known as Piodão Velho, the seat of the medieval municipality called Vide de Foz de Piodão.

  The rooms have traditional schist walls, a roof covered with slabs and wooden doors and windows painted in blue. The aspect that artificial light gives him, at night, combined with the layout of the houses, made him receive the name "Aldeia Presépio".