An example of a walled village that served, at the end of the Middle Ages, as a settlement for homies. The layout of the fence surrounding the village is easily reconstructed by the small sections that remain.

Sabugal's importance was linked, in medieval times, to the crossing of the Côa River by a stone bridge. Next to it was an altar with two old wooden saints, sacred entities on the paths that led to the village.

The castle with an irregular square shape has added to the eastern facade, facing the village, the imposing pentagonal keep. Matacães protect the entrance to the tower and its faces, and below them open slopes.

The walled enclosure also has three smaller towers at its angles, and a fourth interrupting the south face of the fence.

Two small circular cubes, with reinforced bases, and artillery holes, protected the west face of the wall.

An important part of the current structure dates back to the Manueline reform, the adaptation of the D. Dinis castle to the new means of war of the century. XVI.