Fojo do Lobo de Fafião

Montalegre
Description
It is a granite structure of converging walls, and a cavity of circular plan. It´s structural particularity is the absence of jutted stones at the top of the wall, with about 64 meters long and 2.17 meters in height, revealing the mouth of the Woolf’s Trap at its end an ascending slope.

It is believed that it was used mostly in winter, when farmers drove the goats and cattle for the Low Hill, located at southwest of the village and bordered naturally by the rivers of Fafião and Cávado. The pit of the Wolf’s Trap was covered with wood, horizontally disposed, and a crown of foliage, easily passable by the wolf. The hunters, armed with guns, prevented the escape of the wolf through the waters of the rivers, forwarding him in to the Wolf’s Trap, where the men were waiting ready to shoot.
No one knows for sure its date of construction; it is believed that it date’s the eighteenth century. We only know that it was recovered in the mid-nineteenth century, suffering more improvement works and cleansing in the 80s and 90s.


Location: Montalegre
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