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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.

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PROPOSTA 1 DE 2 · Crafts and memories

Draw the heights on paper

Museu das Terras de Basto collection · Arco de Baúlhe

This mug made coffee

Copper mug MTB 241 was used to make coffee. The inventory records a height of 12 centimetres and a diameter of 7.2. The piece belongs to the Museu das Terras de Basto in Arco de Baúlhe. No manufacture date or recipe is given. Compare the dimensions in the diagram: similar heights can conceal very different widths. Draw a rectangle 12 centimetres high and 7.2 wide to picture the scale of the mug. The drawing helps compare dimensions, but cannot tell us its capacity: the interior shape and wall thickness are missing. An inventory teaches us through both its measurements and the questions it leaves open.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Draw three lines with the stated heights, using the same scale for each.
2. Compare the mug and brazier: their heights are almost the same, but their diameters differ.
3. Write each object’s function beside its name. The lines compare dimensions; they do not show the objects’ shapes.

Use a pencil and ruler without handling or heating the objects.

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Sources of this proposal

• Basto Land Museum — Latoaria, Teresa Soeiro text and inventory of piecesConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

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.

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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.