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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.

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

PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · Between rivers and mountains

Compares three ways to use water

Cavez · landscape described in 1758

A river that powered mills but did not irrigate

In 1758, the Tâmega at Cavez was described as a river with plentiful water throughout the year and a particularly strong winter current. It had weirs, channels and grain mills. Along its banks, the account noted cultivated areas, olive groves and trees supporting vines. Despite that presence in farming life, the vicar stated that the river did not irrigate the parish’s fields: it ran too deep to allow irrigation channels. This is an important difference between having water nearby and being able to direct it to a plot. The description shows how relief shaped water use at that time; it does not describe present-day irrigation.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. It makes three columns: Cavez, Bucos and Alvite.
  2. After reading the related stories, note where water, mills or water retention appear.
  3. Emphasize a difference and write the explanation given by the document. Do not make it a description of the present.

It works with the accounts of 1758; the result is a historical comparison.

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PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Read the landscape through the plants

Try observing

Common names used in the source

Strawberry tree, carqueja and gorse

Strawberry tree, carqueja, gorse and honeysuckle appear in the municipality’s description of mountain vegetation. The source also links upland scrub to grazing goats, cattle and sheep, distinguishing it from cultivated pasture lower down. Scrub is therefore part of a landscape of plants, animals and work. These common names are starting points for learning about vegetation, not identifications of every plant you encounter. The municipal account relates this vegetation to changing land use: it mentions the partial replacement of oaks, chestnuts and scrub by maritime pine. Reading the landscape therefore also means asking what was planted and what changed. One green patch may hold stories of grazing, cultivation and forestry. Start by choosing a detail in the next stories: a carqueja stem, gorse spines, the strawberry tree’s flowers and fruits, or honeysuckle’s place at the woodland edge. Each question brings you closer without requiring you to identify every plant already.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. In a landscape design, use different symbols for trees, shrubs and fields.
  2. Compare the spots: where you find continuity and where there are intervals? You can do the exercise from a photograph.
  3. Choose one of the plans of this story and open the related reading to discover a detail.

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

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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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My findings

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

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