Born and bred in the area, Lisbon-based Nuno Caldeira, who has a great passion for his roots and the heritage of Cunqueiros, was excited by the existence of a local patrimony, a large cluster of schist houses. This dream of restoring some of this patrimony and bring life back to the village started to become reality from 2012, with the restoration of one of the three houses in the Casas de Encosta project.