Portugeese village, apparantly, 'the bigger your chimney, the smaller your house!' Esperanca, Portugal meaning Hope. The territory that now constitutes the parish of Hope knew human settlement since very distant times. With one notable archeology, Hope presents some of the rarest sets of petroglyphs in Portugal. Until a few years ago painted just six shelters were marked in our country, of which two were located in Tras-os-Montes and the remaining four in the area of Hope: three in the hills of Louções, Rush Valley, and the last mountain in the Gourd or Knight. For its historical heritage of inestimable value, Hope was considered the "true capital of the Portuguese rock