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Up to six proposals of Cabeceiras, in your own order, to do it at home, in company or on a break.

2 de 6 propostas escolhidas · faça-as ao seu ritmo.

PROPOSTA 1 DE 2 · Travel through time

One house, two clues

Abadim · architecture and interpreting inscriptions

Two dates do not tell a house’s whole story

In Abadim, António P. Dinis highlights Casa da Ramada, with its armorial gateway, granary, threshing floor and porch. He records 1678 on one lintel and 1828 on another doorway’s lintel. From these marks, he proposes an initial 17th-century structure and improvements in the first half of the 19th century. An inscription is a clue, not a birth certificate for every wall. The two dates suggest a house that changed over time: living and working spaces may combine elements from several periods. The source does not confirm current access arrangements.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draw two doors on paper and write 1678 and 1828 on their bakers.
  2. Write down the interpretation proposed by the author with each date.
  3. Leave the rest of the house without dates: the text does not allow assigning an age to each wall.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

PROPOSTA 2 DE 2 · Travel through time

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Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape

A house with three granaries

At Casa de Chouzas, three 19th-century granaries stand alongside the manor house highlighted by the municipality. The group connects two functions: living and storing the harvest. Rather than looking only at the main house, it is worth recognising the importance of buildings supporting agriculture. The introduction to Vilar de Cunhas places this heritage in a landscape of plateau and mountain, shaped by farming and pastoralism. House and granaries can be read in that working context, although the source does not detail each property’s production. The house’s dating is less firm: the municipality presents it as perhaps 19th-century, while assigning the granaries to the 19th century. That difference should remain visible. The photograph accompanying the reading shows the portal, not the three granaries. The heritage reference does not confirm access to the group.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Look at the photo of the portal and list only the elements you can see.
  2. Compared to the three granaries mentioned in the text: what depends on the written description?
  3. Imagine a caption that distinguishes the frame of the photograph from the remaining patrimonial set.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

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