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

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.

PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Travel through time

Draw the links of the village

Bucos · transport in 1758

A small bridge on a long route

At Casares, a wooden bridge formed part of the royal road to Braga and the connections with Trás-os-Montes, according to the 1758 account. Given the traffic, the vicar argued for rebuilding it in stone. This was a request, not confirmation of completed work. The source distinguishes that crossing from small pedestrian footbridges made with a wooden beam. Different crossings answered different needs. The crossing did not serve only the village. The vicar describes a busy public road connecting Braga with the jurisdiction of Basto and Trás-os-Montes. The bridge therefore appears as a local point in a larger network. His recommendation to replace it with dressed stone shows the author assessing a need as well as recording what existed. In the same rivers, water drove mills and was used by farmers in their fields. Crossing, milling and irrigation appear in the same portrait of the territory. A bridge can be read through what it makes possible: reaching another place, maintaining a connection or bringing work on opposite sides of the water closer together.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Write on a sheet Casares, parish church, Fox and mills, without putting them on a real map.
2. Connect each name to the need described: crossing, receiving news, cult or grinding.
3. It distinguishes what the text describes from what it merely proposes, such as the stone bridge.

Scheme of historical relations, without distances or indication of itinerary.

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Sources of this proposal

• Municipality — Parish memories of Bucos (1758)Consultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · Crafts and memories

Compare two portraits of Faia

Faia · sacred art, 2025

Roots and light renew a chapel

Olive-tree roots shaped the new altar and ambo in the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo. The Archdiocese of Braga’s report of 6 October 2025 attributes the work to Atelier Amadeus and describes a refurbishment centred on the altar. A suspended cross forms part of the element called Corpo de Luz. Parish priest Rui Filipe Marques Araújo explained the lighting’s symbolism: groups of lights refer to the Trinity, the Evangelists and the Apostles. The publication also highlights the contribution of artists, technicians, workers and the community. The intervention shows heritage continuing to gain new forms and meanings; the 2025 report does not give visiting hours. The account presents the celebration, presided over by José Cordeiro, as a gathering of Faia with the communities of Arco de Baúlhe and Vila Nune. The choice of roots also receives a religious interpretation: according to the priest, transforming previously discarded material expresses renewal and redemption. This is the symbolic reading attributed to him in the report, distinct from the description of the materials. To understand the work, we can look at both layers: how it was made and the meaning given to it.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Read the history of the chapels described in 1758 and this reading about the intervention of 2025.
2. On a sheet, separate what each source describes: location and relationships with the community; materials, light and artistic creation.
3. Write down a question that remains unanswered. The old reference does not allow dating each part of the current building.

A comparison of sources to make at home; does not require access to the interior of the chapel.

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Sources of this proposal

• Archdiocese of Braga — renewal of Lady of Amparo, news of 06/10/2025Consultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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