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Torre de Palma Roman Villa (Monforte): this Roman Villa is located at Monforte’s estate. It’s a rustic villa, where a powerful roman family was possibly settled between the 2nd and the 4th centuries. The Villa expands itself over a soft hill, near a small river, and around a wide interior yard. It’s large and sumptuous accommodations were grouped around a square yard with shed settled in columns and a tank in the middle. Nisa’s Historical Center (Nisa): a housing nucleus with ancestral architectonic features can be found right in the village’s heart. It’s a pleasant place where several museums, making a visit worthwhile, can be found. Castle (Nisa): this castle was founded by the king D. Dinis and was, in times gone by, surrounded by walls and towers that used to surround the village. Actually, and from the original monument, only two doors and part of the wall still remain. S. Gens Dolmen (Nisa): the S. Gens Dolmen is integrated in a four megalithic monument group. Between the exhumed materials, one can find bone pouches, pottery and lithic material like arrow’s tips.