The legend tells us, that the Portuguese sailors returned from the Gascony's Golf and brought with them wood and pinecones from that region. Intrigued by the tall pine trees that grew in sand, they kept the seeds that showed to the Queen. Isabel.
The Queen then went to the sands of Moel and sowed the plume in the wind. After a few months, small trees began to sprout and the excited Queen showed the King the result of her labor.
The king D. Dinis seeing the potential of these future pines for their shipbuilding projects, sent the sailors to bring more seeds from those on their next voyages.
And so, Rumor has it, organized sowing of Pinhal do Rei began, that reached us, after all these centuries.
The Queen Saint Isabel
no arenal bravo de Moel
put his hand in his lap,
sowed seeds into space.
- O Pinhal do Rei, of the King my husband,
Your flowered body will walk in the seas!
The Queen Saint Isabel
no areal bravo de moel
took from the divine lap
pin green seeds.
- O Pinhal do Rei, of the King my lord,
it is God who consecrates you by browser!
He put his hand in his lap,
sowed seeds into space,
no areal bravo de moel
the Queen Saint Isabel.
- O Pinhal do Rei, of the King my husband,
your flowered body will go around the world!
Drew from the divine lap
pin green seeds
no areal bravo de moel
the Queen Saint Isabel.
- O Pinhal do Rei, of the King my lord,
you will be us seas or navigator.
Afonso Lopes Vieira in “Where the land ends and the sea begins”, 1940