The Aldeias do Xisto network consists of 27 villages spread across the interior of the Central region of Portugal. These small centers add the regional tourist potential reflected in architecture, environmental amenities, gastronomy and traditions, among other distinctive cultural elements presented in products and services of excellence.

Pedrógão Pequeno is one of the Schist Villages. In schist lands there is a Pedrógão – a granite outcrop – which provided stone for the stonework of doors and windows, although schist is the predominant building material.

A village overlooking the river Zêzere, next to the Cabril Dam, Pedrógão Pequeno, with its very typical streets and alleys, hides stories, legends and heritage known as the Jewel of Beira Baixa.

The village of Pedrógão Pequeno, at the end of Sertã, was donated to D. Afonso Henriques, in the second half of the 12th century, to the Order of the Temple and by D. Sancho II in 1216, to the Order of the Hospital. In 1419 it still belonged to Sertã, but it did not take long to achieve relative autonomy, which at that time was granted to all the small towns in the country. It is located on the left bank of the Zêzere, on the edge of the IC8, a few kilometers from Pedrógão Grande and the Cabril Dam. Of its heritage stand out the Igreja Matriz and the Filipina Bridge over the Zêzere.

  In Pedrógão Pequeno, shale is hidden under white plaster. When the philharmonic band comes to play, the streets fill up and memories of the 1950s come to mind, the time when the workers who built the Cabril dam arrived in the village. To discover the view from the top of Monte da Senhora da Confiança and the old road that, over an old Philippine bridge, takes us to Zêzere

In summary, it is a white granite village in the sea of brown shale that surrounds it.

Source: https://www.aldeiasdoxisto.pt/pt/aldeias/zezere/pedrogao-pequeno/