The Gavieira village is located in Serra da Peneda, North of Portugal. The Serra’s settlements are conditioned by its specific elevation and drastic topography variations, determining a significant variety of micro-climates on a relative small extension. Gavieira has the particularity of being a seasonable occupancy settlement, integrated in a wide system of complementary clusters that were developed to support the major local subsistence activity: livestock breeding. Due to the harsh climate conditions, this activity depends on ancient transhumance practices, which allow the transfer of cattle between the upland pastures, during the late spring and summer periods, and the plateaus of the low valleys, during the cold season (Gomes, 2014).