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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

Two ways to count

Cunhas · heritage and legends in the municipal guide

A village, a manor house and two legends

The municipal village guide highlights a compact group of old houses and the Teixeiras Pereiras manor house in Cunhas. This is a reference to the village’s architecture, without any indication of access to the building’s interior. The same guide tells two legends: one links the name Cunhas to a soldier called Cunha de Pau, associated with fighting the Moors; the other says that Saint Senhorinha once had a house in the village. These are stories from popular memory. The publication does not present them as proven events or enable a house belonging to the saint to be located.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. He writes two titles on a sheet: referred heritage and told legend.
  2. Distribute for them the elements of this story.
  3. Choose one of the legends and imagine an illustration, identifying it as your creation inspired by the narrative.

It distinguishes the oral tradition of a proven event; the design does not reconstruct a historical building.

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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

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

My findings

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

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