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Cabeça (formerly also known as São Romão de Cabeça) is a village and former parish in Portugal.

This slate village in the Serra da Estrela mountains is known in Portugal as Aldeia Natal, the Christmas Village. In 2011, it also became the first "Aldeia LED" in Portugal, the first village to completely switch its lighting to environmentally friendly LED lighting.

During the medieval Reconquista, the village of Cabeça, located on a rock head, was the seat of an offshoot of the "Rits of the Golden Spur" (Port.: Cavaleiros da Espora Dourada).

On the 13th January 1800 it became its own community, by sex-aling from the municipality of Loriga.^[1]

In the course of the territorial reform in Portugal in 2013, the municipality of Cabeça was dissolved and merged with Vide.

Cabeça was a municipality (Freguesia) in the district (Concelho) of Seia, in the district of Guarda. On 30. June 2011, the municipality had 181 inhabitants on an area of 8.5 km².

The community consisted only of the village of Cabeça.

In the course of the administrative reorganization in Portugal, the municipality was appointed to the 29th September 2013 and merged with Vide to form the new community União the Freguesias de Vide e Cabeça. The seat of the new community was Vide.^[2] The former municipal administration in Cabeça remained as a citizens' office.

Since 2013, Cabeça has been moving as the official Aldeia Natal (port. for Christmas village) every year from the end of November to New Year (1. January), initially until Epiphany (6. January) visitors. The village is transformed into a Christmas market through natural Christmas decorations and stalls with regional products, local gastronomy and regional handicrafts. The village is committed to the principles of sustainability, regionality and tradition. For example, the Christmas decorations are made only from remains of local tree pruning, local agriculture and environmentally friendly LED bulbs, and the visitors are involved in activities.^[3][4][5]

The village focuses on nature and regional traditions and specialties and cultivates a rather contemplative Christmas season. For example, there is no Santa Claus or similar stereotypical international Christmas symbols in the Aldeia Natal.^[6]

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