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A LITTLE CURIOITY, MANY IDEA

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Draw, compare, observe or imagine: small proposals linked to the stories of Cabeceiras, with steps and sources.

They are activities to explore at your pace, not events with registration. The indicated time is that of reading support.

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14 proposals in this selection

Time travel

Compare clues

The village that stayed in memory

The traces of the Old Village of Toninha count for another time.

Rio Douro · archeology and oral tradition

See the 3 steps
  1. Divide a sheet into two columns: interpretation of vestiges and popular tradition.
  2. Put the proposed chronology in one column and the narrative of the plague in the other.
  3. Imagine what question you would ask an archaeologist and what memory you would ask an inhabitant.

Part of the text and distinguishes what is documented from what is still a hypothesis.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Build a landscape of words

From valley to hill, the harvest changed

The landscape also chose the pantry.

Rio Douro · agriculture in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws a river and, next to it, a slope.
  2. Next to the river, he writes the products that the account associates with these places; on the mountain he writes the highlighted grain.
  3. Compared to Abadim: does the document also distinguish places within the same parish?

A drawing from descriptions of 1758; does not represent current plots or crops.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

From village to stone detail

The granite also draws the village

In Vilela, the walls help to recognize the landscape.

Vilela · Rio Douro

See the 3 steps
  1. Watch the photograph and choose a built wall or volume.
  2. Opens the history of granite grains and compares the two observation scales.
  3. Note what the general view allows you to perceive and what would require a closer image.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Try to interpret

A castle you read on the ground

In Eiró, the circular shape and moat tell a story.

Rio Douro · archaeological interpretation

See the 3 steps
  1. Read the description and draw only the elements it mentions: circular shape, landfill and moat.
  2. Tick with another color something I would like to know, but the text does not clarify.
  3. Compare your drawing with the reading of Monte do Castelo. What clues come from the terrain and what interpretations?

A proposal for reading and drawing; does not require movement to the site.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Between rivers and mountains

Try watching

Two rivers to count a parish

The report of 1758 organizes Rio Douro between spring and west.

Rio Douro · Parish memories of 1758

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  1. Draw two streams of water from north to south and identify the spring side and the west side.
  2. Add the exit to the Tâmega referred to in the testimony.
  3. Write 1758 in the drawing: it is an interpretation of the account, without scale or indication of path.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Between rivers and mountains

Try watching

In summer, the water took other paths

The levadas linked the flow of rivers to the work of the fields.

Rio Douro · water uses in 1758

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  1. Draw a river and a channel that drifts to the fields.
  2. Add a mill as another use of the water referred to in the document.
  3. Compare the design with the history of Levada de Víbora: what elements are repeated and what information belong to different times?

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The life you don't always see

Try watching

A small frog, a large water connection

There are lives that depend on both the shore and the brook.

Species biology · registered at Rio Douro

See the 3 steps
  1. Open the local photograph and look for the contour of the snout, the strip next to the eye and the hind legs.
  2. Make a small drawing only with the details you can distinguish; leave those that the image does not reveal blank.
  3. Compare the drawing to the description of the reading. A photograph has limits: you do not have to touch an animal to continue to learn.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Connect places and invocations

Fifteen places, a network of chapels

The distance from the church also shaped the lives of the villages.

Rio Douro · places and hermits described in 1758

See the 3 steps
  1. Write the places cited and put aside the associated invocation.
  2. It distinguishes the matrix church of the hermits mentioned in the document.
  3. Compared with the chapels of the Faia: what relations appear between buildings, families and community?

A historical scheme of relationships, without coordinates or visiting routes.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Between rivers and mountains

What do the numbers count?

In the wasteland, the forest finds the water lines

A project of Rio Douro helps to read different functions of the same landscape.

Rio Douro · project announced in April 2025

See the 3 steps
  1. Make a card for the total area and others for the areas announced in the first phase.
  2. Write with each number the purpose described, without treating it as completed work.
  3. Write down a question only an implementation report could answer.

Comparison of the 2025 announcement; it is neither a map of interventions nor an evaluation of results.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

Look at the details.

Water also worked wool

Wool and cereals: two works on the same stream.

Formigueiro · labour assets

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  1. Look in the photograph three elements: stone, vegetation and signage.
  2. Connect these elements to the idea of mountain landscape, without seeking to locate ruins that do not appear in the image.
  3. Return to the text and identify the two works associated with the mill: wool and cereals.

You can make this proposal with the image and the text of the story, without moving.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

Prepare a conversation about the village

The herd was also a village matter

In Cambezes, the inter-help reached the pastures.

Cambezes · Rio Douro · rural memory

See the 3 steps
  1. Choose a task done together: shepherding, watering or another known in the family.
  2. Prepare three questions: who participated, how the turn was decided and what changes are remembered.
  3. Register the date and person heard, with permission. Distinguish personal testimony, published guide and current practice.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Read the landscape through the plants

Follow the leaf margin

Not all leaves sting the same way

The holly holds differences even in its branches.

Local register · Rio Douro · general botany

See the 3 steps
  1. Opens the photograph of Rio Douro and chooses two very visible leaves.
  2. Draw the contour of each one and mark the tips you can distinguish.
  3. Compared to the description: Does this image allow us to conclude that all leaves of all mistletoe have the same outline?

An exploration of the photograph, without collecting plants. The image documents a moment, not all the characteristics of the species.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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