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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 · Read the landscape through the plants

Try observing

Common names used in the source

Strawberry tree, carqueja and gorse

Strawberry tree, carqueja, gorse and honeysuckle appear in the municipality’s description of mountain vegetation. The source also links upland scrub to grazing goats, cattle and sheep, distinguishing it from cultivated pasture lower down. Scrub is therefore part of a landscape of plants, animals and work. These common names are starting points for learning about vegetation, not identifications of every plant you encounter. The municipal account relates this vegetation to changing land use: it mentions the partial replacement of oaks, chestnuts and scrub by maritime pine. Reading the landscape therefore also means asking what was planted and what changed. One green patch may hold stories of grazing, cultivation and forestry. Start by choosing a detail in the next stories: a carqueja stem, gorse spines, the strawberry tree’s flowers and fruits, or honeysuckle’s place at the woodland edge. Each question brings you closer without requiring you to identify every plant already.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. In a landscape design, use different symbols for trees, shrubs and fields.
  2. Compare the spots: where you find continuity and where there are intervals? You can do the exercise from a photograph.
  3. Choose one of the plans of this story and open the related reading to discover a detail.

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

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

My findings

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

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