Principe da Beira Hotel recovery comes from the Old Seminary Fundão. The intervention consisted of remodeling the building's main body and the expansion of the old building.
The cultural and architectural history of the building is that it has served as a hostel for institutions, which in various forms and in times different, contributed to the socio - economic and cultural development of the county.
If no record date of construction of the building, the data collected show that has been built in the mid eighteenth century, at the time of the Marques de Pombal, starting its activity as Fabrica Wiring that produced yarns for weaving of Covilha. With the political instability of the early nineteenth century, the factory closes its doors.
Occupied by Fundão Minor Seminary between 1919 and 1935, the building gained new life thanks to the importance of that institution. In fact the existence of the seminar allowed many Children from needy families could study.
Great were the names that have passed through this educational establishment who have excelled in various fields, from art to science and clerical vocation, such as Virgilio Ferreira, José Nuno Figueiredo, Nicolau Firmino, Abel Pereira Delgado, Augustine Man, José Soares da Fonseca, José António Saraiva and Aquilino Ribeiro.
For these, the Old seminar was permanent source of inspiration.
In 1935 the building was occupied by the Shelter of St. Joseph for 39 years. This shelter was a school of traditional crafts with woodworking and carpentry, teaching alternative forms of employment, and agriculture. In 1974 the school of arts and crafts is transferred to the Village of Joanes. With the construction of the new workshop, the building became a haven for refugees from the former Portuguese colonies.
In 1975 the Diocese Guard acquires the building, for use capião.
Early of the eighties, when the former refugees from former colonies left the scene, the building was purchased by individuals who started shortly after the reconstruction works of the building came to house what is now the Hotel Prince of Beira, and the his name to the XVIII century fort built in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil by the Portuguese.