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

Two dates, two places

Documented history · 1514

Two charters, seven days

King Manuel I granted Cabeceiras its foral on 5 October 1514 and Vadym, now Abadim, its charter on 12 October. Seven days separate the documents: the territory’s administrative history passes through more than one place. Why revise the charters? The Torre do Tombo exhibition explains the broader setting: complaints concerned dues, outdated currencies and weights, and old texts that were difficult to interpret. The Manueline reform sought to review these documents. The local dates of 1514 belong to that wider movement; they do not mean the settlements began to exist that year. The work also required recording and preservation. The same exhibition describes preparation in triplicate: one copy for the municipal council, another for the holder of the rights and another for the Torre do Tombo. This general explanation helps show why an administrative document could have several copies. It does not identify the whereabouts of each copy of the two local charters here. On 5 October 2024, Casa do Tempo hosted a discussion of the charter’s 510th anniversary with José Viriato Capela and Porfírio Correia. The municipal report recalls both documents and their importance for administrative organisation. The commemoration opens a door to history; it does not replace reading the charters themselves. A place’s age differs from the date of a document about it. A charter may change or clarify rules in a place already inhabited and active. When you encounter 1514 in a local history, ask whether it refers to the settlement, its rules or the way we commemorate them today.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Draw a line for October 1514 and mark the days 5 and 12.
2. Associate Cabeceiras and Vadym with each date. Add the current name of Vadym.
3. Open a story of Abadim and distinguish the date of the document from the dates that the source assigns to the heritage.

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

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Sources of this proposal

• Municipality — celebration of fora, published in 07/10/2024Consultation/revision: 2026-11-07
• DGLAB / Torre do Tombo and Casa de Bragança Foundation — O Foral Novo: records that tell stories, pp. 2 and 4 PDFConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · Life you do not always see

A Transforming Family

Occurrence mentioned in the environmental document

The Iberian wolf

The environmental assessment of the municipal master plan records a wolf pack in the area, based on ICNF information. This reflects Cabeceiras’s ecological importance; it is not a promise of a sighting. Learning about this presence does not require searching for the animals or revealing their shelters. The national platform links a shortage of wild prey with livestock consumption and conflict with pastoral communities. It presents protecting flocks and restoring natural prey as complementary parts of conservation. A pack is also a family that changes. The platform describes a breeding pair, offspring from different years and sometimes other related adults. The group defends a territory, but its composition changes through births, growth and dispersal. In the general cycle described for Portugal, pups are born in late April or May. During summer, rendezvous sites become centres of family activity; in autumn, the young begin accompanying adults as they travel and hunt. This is not an observation calendar for a particular pack. As they grow, some young wolves leave their original group to seek a territory, a mate or another pack. Others stay longer when enough food is available. A count at one moment therefore does not describe an unchanging family: social life follows the annual cycle and the opportunities offered by the landscape.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Draws a family group with adults and pups from the description.
2. Add arrows to represent growth and output of young people from the group.
3. Compare two moments of the drawing: what would change in a countdown?

General biology scheme; it does not represent the number of wolves in a local pack.

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Sources of this proposal

• PDM — Environmental Assessment, p. 50Consultation/revision: 2026-11-06
• Lobo-Iberico platform in Portugal — wolf prey; registration of Cabreira without date indicatedConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07
• Lobo-Iberico Platform in Portugal — Life in packConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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

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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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.