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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 4 MIN

Places to learn, care and find

A scientist remembered in school, books, assistance, memory and meetings in the market. Five stories of people and institutions that are part of the life of the municipality. It is a sequence of reading, not a script with access to the buildings.

2 de 5 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try1 activity · 1 interactive exploration · 2 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A botanist named after the school library
  2. In the Arch, the books won home in 2005
  3. Care is also part of the story
  4. A stream in the history of Casa do Tempo
  5. The market is also a meeting place
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12 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

Outeiro: hands, paths and memory

Twelve stories to know the relief, archeology, crafts, pilgrimages and associative life of Outeiro. It compares three inventoried sites, enters a workshop and accompanies footwear to the fair. Schemes and activities help to explore; it is a reading route without indicating access to sites.

2 de 12 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try9 activities · 6 interactive explorations · 7 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. The relief gives a clue to the name
  2. Three places, several layers of past
  3. Baskets that hold knowledge
  4. A craft learned alongside the master
  5. Before the punch, a piece of alder
  6. Carolinas: a name to wear
  7. From fair to work in the country
  8. Two ox cars full of shoes
  9. A Medieval Image Found On Earth
  10. When the images came out of the church
  11. Three names in the calendar of devotion
  12. Outeiro and football
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Facade of Igreja de Santa Senhorinha of Basto, with its two towers
Igreja de Santa Senhorinha · heritage context of the parish, not a record of the 1758 celebration© Bocacheteⓘ
7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

Holy Lady: water, encounters and memory

Seven stories to link the river to the fields, bridges, fairs and news. Explore the links between readings and set up a mail calendar of 1758. The old documents keep their dates; do not announce current services or parties.

1 de 7 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try4 activities · 3 interactive explorations · 3 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. The river entered the life of the fields
  2. Not all bridges were stone
  3. Olela had days of meeting
  4. When the parishes met
  5. A Church Counted in Images
  6. Bread, wine and oil filled the portrait of the earth
  7. To receive news, it was necessary to count on Fox
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12 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 10 MIN

To Faia, between trades and devotions

Twelve stories to get to know Faia: the sixteen places told in 1758, agriculture, tannaria, manual footwear, chapels and the recent care of the heritage. Comparing names and testimonies, explores photographs and goes to the records of the church and the Lady of Amparo. Reading route, without indicating a visit itinerary.

1 de 12 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A road helps to read the Faia
  2. A parish told by sixteen places
  3. The Tojeira hasn't stopped in a century
  4. At Faia, the fruit also counts
  5. The wood also keeps the wine
  6. At Faia, hands also made shoes
  7. Chapels between the hill and the houses
  8. Five altars to read a church
  9. A stream with a marked day
  10. A year of works, a church reopened
  11. Roots and light give another life to the chapel
  12. The year was also counted by the fairs
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Organ with tubes and golden cut, on carved figures and decorative faces.
View of the organ and the decoration that sustains it, photographed in 2016. The image does not determine which of the two organs is the mute.
Photography: Joseolgon · CC BY-SA 4.0
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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

The heritage deserves a second look

A mute organ, wood and metal, a frame, a star and five arches. Discover details of Refojos, Abadim and Cavez in five readings. The sequence does not indicate a visit route or access to the interiors.

3 de 5 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try3 activities · 3 interactive explorations · 1 question
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Two organs, one of them mute
  2. Wood inside, glow outside
  3. What the frame was hiding
  4. A star in the pillory
  5. Five arches, more than a while
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Revolving plate and tracks from the old Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway equipment at the bottom.
Former Arco de Baúlhe station, where the Basto Land Museum is located.© JP Ribeiroⓘ
5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

Memory also needs care

From a photographer of Refojos to the arch archives and the conservation of Ponte de Cavez: five ways to convey the story.

1 de 5 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try1 activity · 1 interactive exploration · 3 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. From Cancela to portraits of Brazil
  2. A botanist named after the school library
  3. The station also keeps documents
  4. In the Arch, the books won home in 2005
  5. Keeping a bridge is also making history
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Air view of the Monastery of São Miguel and the Republic Square in Refojos
Mosteiro de São Miguel de Refojos: the place connected to the abbot Frei Diogo de Murça. Photograph of the set, not of the reported season.© Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGALⓘ
8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 6 MIN

People, books and new lives

Books, people and a medieval chalice connect Refojos to other cities. Discover the decor of the piece, the difference between the donor and the goldsmith and their journey to Coimbra, before returning to the new lives of the monastery and to the names of the streets.

7 de 8 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try2 activities · 2 interactive explorations · 6 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. Cabeceiras is also found in books
  2. Between a monastery and a university
  3. A cup full of characters
  4. Who offers is not necessarily who does
  5. From Refojos to Coimbra, a history in motion
  6. After the monks, other lives
  7. A street sign can open a story
  8. From Cancela to portraits of Brazil
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Air view of the Monastery of São Miguel and the Republic Square in Refojos
Current view of the Monastery of Refojos and the square; it is not an image of the nineteenth-century uses.© Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGALⓘ
6 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

Places also change their lives

Jail, school, fairs, football field, train and monastery: six stories link buildings and paths to people's lives.

5 de 6 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try3 activities · 3 interactive explorations · 4 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. From jail to music
  2. A street also guards trades
  3. The Thirty Fair had a date day
  4. When football won the field
  5. The goods had a marked day
  6. After the monks, other lives
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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 4 MIN

Objects keep stories

Paintings, wood, metal and carving: five readings to discover the mobile heritage of Refojos and the work of those who keep it.

5 de 5 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try2 activities · 1 interactive exploration · 3 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A dish that passed through centuries
  2. Wood inside, glow outside
  3. A painting is part of a bigger story
  4. What the frame was hiding
  5. Three faces for a little sculpture
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Organ with tubes and golden cut, on carved figures and decorative faces.
View of the organ and the decoration that sustains it, photographed in 2016. The image does not determine which of the two organs is the mute.
Photography: Joseolgon · CC BY-SA 4.0
About this photograph

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 7 MIN

Refojos: the various lives of the Monastery

Eight stories link the medieval community, the materials of the church, the cultivated fence and the new uses of the surroundings. Compares the organ, the choir and the Zimbabwe in the descriptions; follows the stream to the history of Casa do Tempo. Includes chronologies, photographs and activities.

8 de 8 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try5 activities · 8 interactive explorations · 3 questions
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What am I gonna find out?
  1. A monastery older than certainty
  2. Between a monastery and a university
  3. Two organs, one of them mute
  4. Wood inside, glow outside
  5. Beyond the church, cultivated land
  6. A little pagela kept a collective concern
  7. After the monks, other lives
  8. A stream in the history of Casa do Tempo
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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

When the news had to wait

Five readings link the small places of Vila Nune to the world of letters and compare the mails of Faia, Bucos and Santa Senhorinha. Observes days, distances and differences between documents. A historical reading, without rebuilding routes or delivery times.

1 de 5 histórias com ligação a Refojos de Basto.

Things to try4 activities · 2 interactive explorations · 4 questions
Entrar por Refojos de Basto →Começar pelo início →Read all below →
What am I gonna find out?
  1. A parish, many small places
  2. The news had day to come
  3. To receive news, it was necessary to count on Fox
  4. The letters had days of arrival
  5. The letters came from somewhere else
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