 After this, the Catholic Monarchs banned the construction of any fortress in the village.During the last few centuries, like many villages in inner Galicia, it has suffered from a vast emigration of its people to Cuba and Argentina up to 1950s, and then to Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and to other cities of Spain such as Barcelona, Bilbao and A Coruña.Currently its economy is based on agriculture, meat processing, and, more recently, tourism.