Border demarcation (I)

The instauration of the feudal society model, together with the enactment of different charters to attract the limited number of people willing to settle such distant lands, underlined the incredible complexity of the territorial and jurisdictional map of the border, and the memory of these persist nowadays.

The Spain-Portugal border became, for several centuries, a semi-depopulated region, far from the centres of power, a vast solar space used by the respective peninsular powers as a security zone at the cost of the insecurity of its inhabitants; an undefined and dangerous land where there was a succession of skirmishes and constant looting.