Montado is an ancestral cultural landscape of mixed native open forest and agricultural land. Montado is an agro-silvo-pastoral system maintained by centuries-old protective legislation and guardianship. The cultural and environmental value is so significant, Montado was included in UNESCO’s Tentative World Heritage List in 2017. The interconnectivity between local community and land extends to cultural practices. In gastronomy, for instance, human consumption of holm oak acorns or ‘bolotas’ dates back to the Bronze Age.