A notebook.
Your findings.

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

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

PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · Travel through time

Who took care of every chapel?

Alvite · 1758 account

Six chapels, different responsibilities

The Alvite account lists six chapels in 1758. Santo Antonino belonged to the house and estate of that name; Bom Despacho stood beside Casa de Alvação; Sagrada Família beside Casa da Torre. These three are presented as private. The others were São Mamede in Petimão, Santa Catarina on the hill of the same name and São Sebastião in Chão. The text assigns costs to parishioners but makes an exception for São Mamede: there, the convent of Refojos and the abbot of São Clemente were responsible as joint beneficiaries. The word fábrica concerns these maintenance responsibilities, not an industrial factory. These are relationships from 1758, establishing neither present ownership nor access.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Make a list of the six names of the document.
2. Associates each chapel with the house, customers or entities indicated for the charges.
3. It marks the exception of Saint Mamede and distinguishes maintenance, property and access: the source does not respond in the same way to the three questions.

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

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Sources of this proposal

• Basto Land Museum — Parish Memories of 1758: AlviteConsultation/revision: 2026-11-08

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Crafts and memories

Compare two solutions

Alvite and Passos · irrigation documented in 2008

The water changed its path

The municipal record for Poça do Monte, surveyed on 14 April 2008, describes a change in Alvite: the shared users piped the natural-ground channel in 2001. It was about one kilometre long and used water from the Ribeiro Furado spring. The record identifies seven shared users and mentions a steep initial slope. This story helps distinguish the old open channel from piped water conveyance. The document cannot establish the network’s condition today and does not present a walking route.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Split a sheet into two columns: before and after.
2. Note the change described in the text and the date of the source.
3. Write a question the document leaves open.

Exploitation of the document, no visit to the real estate.

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Sources of this proposal

• Municipality — inventory of levadas, L2, survey of 14/04/2008Consultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · Travel through time

Try observing

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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Sources of this proposal

• Municipality — Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas, landscape, heritage and craftsConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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