Time travelCompare 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
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- Divide a sheet into two columns: interpretation of vestiges and popular tradition.
- Put the proposed chronology in one column and the narrative of the plague in the other.
- 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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The flavours of CabeceirasBuild a landscape of words
From valley to hill, the harvest changed
The landscape also chose the pantry.
Rio Douro · agriculture in 1758
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- Draws a river and, next to it, a slope.
- Next to the river, he writes the products that the account associates with these places; on the mountain he writes the highlighted grain.
- 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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Crafts and memoriesFrom village to stone detail
The granite also draws the village
In Vilela, the walls help to recognize the landscape.
Vilela · Rio Douro
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- Watch the photograph and choose a built wall or volume.
- Opens the history of granite grains and compares the two observation scales.
- Note what the general view allows you to perceive and what would require a closer image.
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Time travelTry to interpret
A castle you read on the ground
In Eiró, the circular shape and moat tell a story.
Rio Douro · archaeological interpretation
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- Read the description and draw only the elements it mentions: circular shape, landfill and moat.
- Tick with another color something I would like to know, but the text does not clarify.
- 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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Between rivers and mountainsTry 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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- Draw two streams of water from north to south and identify the spring side and the west side.
- Add the exit to the Tâmega referred to in the testimony.
- Write 1758 in the drawing: it is an interpretation of the account, without scale or indication of path.
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Between rivers and mountainsTry 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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- Draw a river and a channel that drifts to the fields.
- Add a mill as another use of the water referred to in the document.
- Compare the design with the history of Levada de Víbora: what elements are repeated and what information belong to different times?
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The life you don't always seeTry 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
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- Open the local photograph and look for the contour of the snout, the strip next to the eye and the hind legs.
- Make a small drawing only with the details you can distinguish; leave those that the image does not reveal blank.
- 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.
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Time travelConnect 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
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- Write the places cited and put aside the associated invocation.
- It distinguishes the matrix church of the hermits mentioned in the document.
- 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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Between rivers and mountainsWhat 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
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- Make a card for the total area and others for the areas announced in the first phase.
- Write with each number the purpose described, without treating it as completed work.
- 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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Crafts and memoriesLook at the details.
Water also worked wool
Wool and cereals: two works on the same stream.
Formigueiro · labour assets
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- Look in the photograph three elements: stone, vegetation and signage.
- Connect these elements to the idea of mountain landscape, without seeking to locate ruins that do not appear in the image.
- 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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Crafts and memoriesPrepare 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
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- Choose a task done together: shepherding, watering or another known in the family.
- Prepare three questions: who participated, how the turn was decided and what changes are remembered.
- Register the date and person heard, with permission. Distinguish personal testimony, published guide and current practice.
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Read the landscape through the plantsFollow the leaf margin
Not all leaves sting the same way
The holly holds differences even in its branches.
Local register · Rio Douro · general botany
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- Opens the photograph of Rio Douro and chooses two very visible leaves.
- Draw the contour of each one and mark the tips you can distinguish.
- 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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