Region located to the Northwest of the province of Zamora, in the South of Sanabria, northeast of the Portuguese region of after you mountains, to the North of Sayago and West of Alba. With all these regions share customs, gastronomy, culture and language and life forms. Includes some 200,000 hectares and its two geographic axes are saw the snake and the river Aliste. It has always been an area geographically and culturally isolated and economically depressed, by which still preserves customs, languages and ways of life ancient, who unfortunately are losing. This area has passed the vaccaei and astures before the Romans who built the via 17TH to remove the marrow from Asturica Augusta 40 gold;41 Astorga; towards the Atlantic. After the Germanic invasions settled in ready the Swabians, later the Arabs were delighted with water currents that abound in ready. To push the Arabs to the South, Christians were repopulated and fortifying, from the 10th century, the northern part of the Duero shepherds and farmers in the North. Ready was repopulated with people from el Bierzo and 40 Galicia; abound the names of Bercianos and Gallegos ). Later these areas were gradually forgotten and submitted as a fief of the counts de Alba y Aliste.
