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 · Between rivers and mountains

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Gondiães and Vilar de Cunhas · memory and landscape

Vilar looks towards the Beça

The municipal village guide highlights Vilar’s church and thatched buildings on a slope facing the Beça landscape. Its description connects built heritage, farming, livestock and crafts. Reading that introduction invites you to connect different scales: a house’s roof, the village as a whole and the valley opening before it. This is a way to explore the territory through documented features, not current confirmation of every roof’s condition or access to the river. The guide grew from a partnership between Cabeceiras de Basto and Vieira do Minho through the Serra da Cabreira Interpretation and Activities Centre. Its introduction seeks to bring visitors closer to the villages and their people. In Vilar, landscape is connected with work: fields, livestock and crafts help us read the place beyond its valley view.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Draws three plans: a house, the whole village and the Beça valley.
2. In each plan, it places an element referred to in the text.
3. Add agriculture, livestock and crafts to the landscape reading: what questions would you like to explore about these works?

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

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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 · 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

• 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.

PROPOSTA 3 DE 3 · A world beneath the leaves

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General knowledge · national guide

The mushroom is only one part

A mushroom is a reproductive structure; the body of many fungi is a network of threads called mycelium. Each thread is a hypha. CCRES describes this network colonising living or decaying organic matter, from which the fungus obtains nutrients. The fruiting body develops from the mycelium and allows spores to disperse. If conditions are favourable, they can give rise to new mycelium. The visible mushroom tells only part of the life cycle; not all fungi produce cap-shaped structures. When some decomposer species are cultivated, mycelium can develop in inoculated logs. The same log can produce mushrooms for several years while conditions and nutrients remain suitable. This general explanation neither identifies a species nor documents its occurrence in Cabeceiras. The network can also form cords called rhizomorphs. In certain wood-inhabiting fungi, these help bridge gaps between branches or logs to reach another food source. An outer layer protects the inner hyphae during this exploration. Another strategy is to form sclerotia: compact masses of hyphae with a resistant covering. They allow fungi to survive unfavourable periods and, when conditions improve, can produce mycelium or reproductive structures. These are forms of growth and survival described by the Australian botanic gardens, not local records.

Vamos experimentar?

1. Draw a network of wires on paper and, above, a mushroom.
2. Tick the net as mycelium and choose a wire to represent a hyphae.
3. Use the drawing as a scheme: it does not represent the shape or size of a real fungus.

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

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Sources of this proposal

• DGADR / ICNF — Mushroom Collector's Guide, June 2013Consultation/revision: 2026-11-06
• Centre for Silvestre Resources Skills — production mushroomsConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07
• Silvestrian Resource Competence Centre — General MycologyConsultation/revision: 2026-11-08
• Australian National Botanic Gardens / Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research — The myceliumConsultation/revision: 2026-11-07

My findings

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