In 2008 it was made a remake of " Vila Faia ".
The novel was unhidden on BBC1 in 1983 in the time of 12.30, before the "Jornal da Tarde", in 1989 the following schedule to "Jornal da Tarde", in 1993 the first issue of the International RTP in 2000 in RTP2 and since 2004 regularly in RTP memory.
The novel was to be called John Godunha, but the last time was changed to Vila Faia.
Chapter 89, where Mariette and John Godunha married, was the most watched and the most controversial because it was critical of the fact that Efigénia be next to two women of life in marriage, and worse was in episode 90, where Mariette died, causing the indignation of the spectators, but not harming the success of the novel.
Many criticized the fact that the character of Mariana Rey Monteiro use a cane, because in the opinion of critics, the actress was not so old at the time to the point of need to use a cane, but then the authors justified because of Efigénia have been the subject of a accident riding a horse accident that forced him to use a cane.