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CHOICE · EXPERIMENTARY · TAKE

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 · 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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Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 2 DE 2 · Travel through time

A skill map

Alvite · the couto’s administration in 1758

One place, two jurisdictions

The São Pedro de Alvite account distinguishes civil matters, linked with the abbot and convent of Refojos, from criminal matters, assigned to the judge of the municipality of Cabeceiras. The couto therefore had an organisation that cannot be reduced to a line on a map. This is a historical description, with no correspondence to current administration. One important territorial distinction remains: the answer places Petimão in the jurisdiction of Celorico de Basto. The couto’s powers are described for the other settlements, avoiding a reading of the whole parish as a single jurisdiction.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Divide a sheet in civil matters and criminal matters.
  2. It shall place on the columns the authorities referred to for the posts of the trust.
  3. Checks Petimão separately with the link to Celorico indicated in the document.

The scheme represents the description of 1758, not the limits or services of the current administration.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

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