Carção, Portugal – in the north-east corner of PortugalCarção is a small village of the north-east corner of Portugal, very near the Spanish border. Referred to as the Capital of Christao-novos (New Christians), in the 17th century, the Inquisition focused on the village and arrested 130 people of the 400 residents. No other town, small or large, has ever been so heavily devastated by the Portuguese inquisition court. Of those arrested, 18 eventually burned to death in act of faith (public ceremony in which the Inquisition pronounced judgment and passed sentence on those tried as heretics).In recent years, the local government decided to adopt the Menorah as part of their official coat of arms, to embrace their Christao-novo identity. Carção also has a small Jewish museum.