The territory of Lands of Wolfram and Tin extends over a large part of the municipality of Covilhã, on the southern slopes of the Estrela and Açor mountains. It is a territory of varied landscapes, from the montane of the uplands, to the basalt of Cova da Beira, passing through the inland Pine woodland, known as Pinhal Interior.

The Zêzere partially defines its natural and administrative boundary, but the river itself also has somewhat distinct features in its course, calm and restful on its wide banks, tortuous in its meanders.

Rurality and agro-pastoral ways of life coexist to the present time with industrial realities, related for a long time to the wool industry and, from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, to mining and its various actions on the landscape, such as slag heaps, workers’ quarters, warehouses and other buildings. But often mixed in with this, we will find an architectural heritage of a vernacular nature, present in the terraces, levadas (water ways), dams, mills, watermills and protection walls of the Zêzere river, as well as certain types of housing that are very characteristic of the region, with the use of pebbles bonded with clay mortars.

Rurality and agro-pastoral ways of life coexist to the present time with industrial realities, related for a long time to the wool industry and, from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, to mining and its various actions on the landscape, such as slag heaps, workers’ quarters, warehouses and other buildings. But often mixed in with this, we will find an architectural heritage of a vernacular nature, present in the terraces, levadas (water ways), dams, mills, watermills and protection walls of the Zêzere river, as well as certain types of housing that are very characteristic of the region, with the use of pebbles bonded with clay mortars.