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.

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PROPOSTA 1 DE 3 · Travel through time

Watch the materials

Uz · Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas

Stone walls, thatched roofs

The municipal introduction describes Uz’s stone houses and some thatched roofs. It also recalls the name Casal da Urzeira, connected with the heather of the hills. These offer two ways to read the link between settlement and landscape: in house materials and in the memory of a name. The same description associates the village with farming, livestock and work in linen and wool. The portrait helps connect houses, fields and crafts. This is a heritage introduction, without confirming how many thatched roofs survive today.

Vamos experimentar?

1. In a view of the village, it distinguishes walls, coverings and relationship with the fields.
2. Write down only the materials you can recognize; a distant photograph may not show the type of cover.
3. Compare with the stories of flax and wool, without assigning to each house a specific craft.

It observes from an accessible space, respecting privacy and objects.

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Sources of this proposal

• Municipality — Village Guide of Serra da Cabreira: landscape, work and heritageConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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

PROPOSTA 2 DE 3 · 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

• Municipality — landscape and vegetationConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07
• Municipality — landscape heritage: vegetation, agriculture and pastoral careConsultation/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.