Historical Summary:
For its excellent seaside location and how the arms arrived at pond Hill, these lands have been inhabited ever since, which is confirmed by the Lower Paleolithic station of Outeiro da is based. Here graduated a castro Celtibero, facing West. It is known that the Phoenicians traded here, and today with more property that the Romans settled here, and likely that the South Tower of the Firebrand, has had its origin in a tower of Roman building Watchtower, as advanced post town of Eburobrittium, large urban metropolis found and archaeological work.
On 11 January 1148, the first King, Afonso Henriques, supported by
Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, Óbidos to the Arabs, took after the November siege. The cruise of the memory is a simple monument of the era, later restored. Óbidos belonged to defensive Pentagon (five castles), the Centre of the Kingdom, created by the Templars.
With the offer of Óbidos as wedding gift d. Dinis to his wife Isabella, the village was owned by the House of Queens, only extinct in 1834, and passed through here most of the Queens of Portugal, leaving large
benefits. D. Catarina has build the aqueduct and fountains. The administrative reform of d. Manuel I gives the Óbidos in 1513 new Charter, being very intense this season in urban requalifications.
The earthquake of 1755 did feel with intensity in the village, knocking down parts of the wall, as well as some temples and buildings, and changed some aspects of the design and the hull Arabic and medieval. Óbidos also was the scene of battles of the Peninsular War, here was the major battle of Roliça, which at the time belonged to the "term" of Óbidos.
More recently the village was the site of the preparatory meeting of the uprising of April 25, thereby connected to the brave and heroic movement of
captains.
