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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.

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

PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · 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.

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PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Travel through time

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Tâmega Line · object presented by the Museum in June 2024

The last light told a story

The last vehicle of a train carried an important message. The Museum presents a red tail lamp, used at night on the last carriage or wagon to indicate that the train was complete. Its purpose was to signal, not to light the track ahead of the locomotive. The inscription N.1 E POSTO. DA LIVRAÇÃO links the object to Livração station on the Tâmega Valley line. Reading the object means bringing together three clues: the colour of the light, its position on the train and the inscription connecting it with a place. This small object shows that railway history also consists of signals and quiet tasks. The Museum’s presentation, published in June 2024, describes its use and the station to which it was assigned; it does not give a manufacturing date.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draws a locomotive followed by carriages and a last vehicle.
  2. Mark the position of the tail headlamp and identify the colour described at the source.
  3. Compare your task to the pier lamp in the related reading. Two lights can transmit information or illuminate different spaces.

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

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PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · Crafts and memories

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Alvite and Passos · irrigation documented in 2008

The water changed its path

The municipal record for Poça do Monte, surveyed on 14 April 2008, describes a change in Alvite: the shared users piped the natural-ground channel in 2001. It was about one kilometre long and used water from the Ribeiro Furado spring. The record identifies seven shared users and mentions a steep initial slope. This story helps distinguish the old open channel from piped water conveyance. The document cannot establish the network’s condition today and does not present a walking route.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Split a sheet into two columns: before and after.
  2. Note the change described in the text and the date of the source.
  3. Write a question the document leaves open.

Exploitation of the document, no visit to the real estate.

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