It is a typical village where the houses are made of stone, called lousinha stone, with its slate roof. The streets are irregular.

The village is very isolated and without traces of modernity: it is not accessible by car, and the nearest village, Regoufe, is 4 kilometers. Do not have electricity, running water, sanitation, gas, mail, telephone and the mobile phone network is scarce. There are no shops, so the money is useless, or watches in the village.

Managed by scouts, The village that the Scouts are saving

Scouts came almost exactly twenty years ago, in 1993. First came a group of walkers of Porto, led by Father José Nuno (the same walking now in the world mouths for accusing D. Carlos Azevedo of sexual harassment). Paulo Nascimento, the current coordinator of the work, was one of them. Had the idea of turning a village in free fall in a Scout center. Thought of a fundraising campaign. An engineer who had been walker, Daniel Quintã, bought the properties and land and offered them to the association. One third of the Drave.

There are about twenty houses in Drave, but only eight belong to the National tapping Body. The land that rise to the mountains are almost all Scouts.

According to documentary sources, was founded in the first half of the tenth century, as a small monastery inhabited by a religious community under the invocation of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Couto received the letter in the twelfth century, a period that defined the character of this central monastery in the political and administrative life of the region. Since 1154 became inhabited only by religious.

Its importance reinvigorated with the patronage of Blessed Mafalda of Portugal, ephemeral Queen of Castile, who lived here between 1220 and 1256. Sancho I of Portugal and daughter Dulce of Aragon in 1215 was celebrated the marriage of his contract with Henry of Castile. Before the deceased, however, with 13 years Mafalda returned to Portugal without the marriage had finished, but with the title of queen. His father gave him the Arouca Monastery. Mafalda died on May 1, 1256, and is buried in Arouca.