The district of Guarda is a North-East Portuguese region included in the Azeites da Beira PDO olive production area; it is one of the Portuguese regions which, over time, have been able to express olive oils of high quality which end up being exported to other European and foreign markets. Like in many other regions of the Mediterranean, in Guarda olive oil has had and still has an important economic, social and historical value, as well as gastronomic notoriousness, of course.