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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 · Read the landscape through the plants

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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

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

PROPOSTA 2 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.

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 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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Sources of this proposal

My findings

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

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