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Belmonte is a municipality almost as old as the Portuguese nationality. The town of Belmonte had its charter in 1199 and is located on the panoramic Monte da Esperança (former Montes Cresdados), on whose rockiest hill it was built at the end of the 19th century. XII his castle which, together with the castles of Sortelha and Vila de Touro, formed until the signing of the Treaty of Alcanices (1297), the defensive line of Alto Côa, supported in the rear by the natural wall of Serra da Estrela and the Zêzere Valley . As it was a time of wars against the Leonese and Castilians, the castle of Belmonte was improved during the reigns of D. Afonso III, D. Dinis and D. João I. The bravery and loyalty of the Cabrais family was always legendary and feared, especially that of its first Mayor – Fernão Cabral, who once appointed definitively and hereditarily, in 1466 by D. Afonso V, will transform the castle into a Fortified Manorial Residence, where his son Pedro Álvares Cabral will live his first years of life. In the century. XIII attests to the existence of an already prosperous Jewish community, responsible for the existence of a synagogue of which an inscription remains dated 1296, which probably lived in a Jewish quarter located in the current neighborhood of Morocco. As a result of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, by the Catholic Monarchs, it is likely that this community increased, until in 1496, D. Manuel I decreed the forced conversion to Catholicism, followed by a series of persecutions and the creation of a crypto-Jewish community that has survived over the centuries, maintaining its rituals and traditions. It is still the same monarch who in 1510 renewed Belmonte's charter. In 1989, the Jewish community of Belmonte was officially created, whose synagogue was opened in 1997 and is currently one of the few communities with a Rabbi.