Due to the rural exodus, San Felices de los Gallegos now only has around 400 inhabitants. After the reconquest (reconquista) from the Moors and the repopulation (repoblación) of the almost deserted mountain region in the 11th and 12th centuries, the area was disputed for centuries between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of León (later the Kingdom of Castile).


Long before the Romans came to Spain, tribal groups of the Celtic tribe of the Vettones settled here. They left us this stone sculpture. A ‘verraco’ depicting a boar or a bull, It is localle known as "El burro de St Anton".