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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.

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

PROPOSTA 1 DE 2 · Read the landscape through the plants

Draws the contrast of the slope

Alvite · written account from 1758

Orada changed from summit to valley

In the account of 1758, Orada has a stony summit with few trees, described as harsh and cold. On its lower slopes, the scene changes: chestnuts, oaks, vines trained up trees, olive oil and cereals enter the description. The vicar places residents in the lower areas near the valley, not on the mountain top. Altitude, settlement and cultivation help us read the whole picture. This is the written portrait of that year, not a survey of today’s vegetation.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draw a schematic slope and separate the top of the faldas.
  2. Place each element where the account refers to it: penedos, trees, cultures and residents.
  3. Open the story of the shepherding and add another function of the mountains, identifying the year of the fountain.

Design of a historical description, without scale and without representing the current uses.

Open a história e os seus recursos →
Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 2 DE 2 · 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.

Open a história e os seus recursos →
Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

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