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A ROAD TO FIND OUT

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From the bread to the fungi, pick a sequence of stories and follow curiosity.

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Reading tours, no trips. Approximate durations to read the main texts and recipes. Save more time to explore the schemes, do activities or cook.

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Rounded sundew leaves with reddish hairs and shining droplets among mosses.
Sundew in the Swamp natural monument near Máchovo jezero, Czechia, in 2013. Species illustration, not an observation from Cabreira.
Photography: Stanislav Rada · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Date given at source: . Source consulted in 2026-11-07. EXIF orientation, proportional resizing and WebP conversion; no retouching or clipping of the file.

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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

Plants with tricks up their sleeves

Eight stories for a closer look: protected seeds, winged fruits, trap leaves, photosynthetic stems and ferns without flowers. Open the diagrams, compare local photographs and draw the parts that distinguish these plants.

1 de 8 histórias com ligação a Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas.

Things to try6 activities · 5 interactive explorations · 8 questions
Entrar por Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas →Começar pelo início →Read all below →
What am I gonna find out?
  1. A pine cone has little homes for seeds
  2. A fruit with a wing
  3. Seeds that travel by water
  4. It looks like dew, but it is a trap
  5. A shrub with well-defended branches
  6. A blackberry is a small cluster
  7. Carqueja stems work too
  8. A plant does not need flowers
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Otter front view over wood, with snout, mustaches and visible paws.
European otter at the Lüneburg Heath fauna park, Germany, in 2009. Animal in fauna park; it is not a record of Cabeceiras.
Photography: Quartl · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Date given at source: . Source consulted in 2026-11-07. EXIF orientation, proportional resizing and WebP conversion of the current version in Commons; no retouching or additional clipping.

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10 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 10 MIN

There's life in and out of the river

Ten stories link the trees from the margins to the animals and moisture. Compare the otter and the water mole, follow the relationship with the aquatic insects and discover the water lizard. Each text distinguishes general biology, regional references and documented records; it is a path of reading, not sighting.

1 de 10 histórias com ligação a Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas.

Things to try7 activities · 9 interactive explorations · 8 questions
Entrar por Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas →Começar pelo início →Read all below →
What am I gonna find out?
  1. The river also has a forest
  2. One willow, many possibilities
  3. Seeds that travel by water
  4. Buckthorn fruits change colour
  5. A small frog with a strong connection to water
  6. A small bird that dives
  7. The otter wears its diving suit
  8. A desman’s life in the current
  9. A mussel begins by travelling with a fish
  10. A lizard between sun and moisture
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A small specimen with green leaves beside a tree trunk.
Freixo · Photography: João Lima
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Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

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6 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Plants that tell water stories

Six stories to compare wet meadows, slow water and margin forests. Opens the scheme of environments, distinguishes folioli leaves and follows seeds and fruits. Photos of the ash and the water-blood document meetings in Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas: observes the leaves and separates what the image shows from what the botany explains.

1 de 6 histórias com ligação a Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas.

Things to try4 activities · 5 interactive explorations · 6 questions
Entrar por Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas →Começar pelo início →Read all below →
What am I gonna find out?
  1. A rush tells a story of damp ground
  2. Some plants prefer slow-moving water
  3. Seeds that travel by water
  4. A fruit with a wing
  5. One willow, many possibilities
  6. Buckthorn fruits change colour
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Lobed leaves of a small Pyrenean oak among dry vegetation.
Black oak · Photography: João Lima
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Registration in the municipality of . One of the species addressed on this route.

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9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 11 MIN

The green also has calendar

Nine stories to accompany leaves, flowers and fruits throughout the year. Compare local photographs of black oak, medronho and mistletoe with the descriptions of its cycles. Draw contours, look for clues and discover what a single station photograph leaves unaccounted for.

1 de 9 histórias com ligação a Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas.

Things to try6 activities · 7 interactive explorations · 7 questions
Entrar por Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas →Começar pelo início →Read all below →
What am I gonna find out?
  1. It looks like a leaf, but it is a stem
  2. An oak can keep its dry leaves
  3. Bay laurel has more than leaves
  4. Flowers and fruit on the same branch
  5. Not all flowers arrive in spring
  6. White flowers, small red fruits
  7. A tree with pale bark
  8. Not every leaf is equally prickly
  9. One tree, several visits
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