The Judiaria de Torres Vedras occupied a central street of the medieval town, close to the Paço do Concelho, in the area of today’s Rua dos Celeiros de Santa Maria. It was not a peripheral enclave, but part of the urban and commercial center of Torres Vedras.

The Jewish presence in Torres Vedras goes back at least to the reign of D. Afonso III. The existence of a chaplain of the Jews already points to a community large enough to require its own religious structure. By 1299, members of the Guedelha family are documented in the town, including Isaac Guedelha and D. Judas Guedelha, identified as rabi-mor of D. Dinis. In 1318, Salomão Guedelha appears as rabbi of the Jews of Torres Vedras. By 1322, documentation already refers explicitly to the Judiaria.

The quarter seems to have begun as a single street. At first, Christians and Jews still lived side by side, which shows that the Judiaria did not begin as a completely exclusive space. Its formal constitution is associated with the reign of D. Afonso IV, in the wider context of royal policies that required Jewish communities to live in their own defined urban areas.

By 1381, Torres Vedras had twenty-five Jewish families, estimated at about ten percent of the town’s population. This is a substantial figure and shows that the comuna was not marginal. Its growth continued through the fifteenth century, and the Judiaria had to be enlarged in 1469.

The surviving names also show a community with recognized figures and internal hierarchy. The Guedelha family appears early and prominently in the record. The references to a rabbi of the Jews of Torres Vedras and to a rabi-mor tied to the royal court indicate a community with status, religious leadership, and connections beyond the town itself.

No specifically Jewish building survives in Torres Vedras today. The former Judiaria is known through medieval documentation and through the identification of its location in the urban fabric, in the area of today’s Rua dos Celeiros de Santa Maria.