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Ponte antiga de Moimenta in Cavez: stone arch over the river, surrounded by vegetation, photographed in June 2020.
Moimenta Bridge, photographed by Pedro at 11 June 2020. A crossing record other than Ponte de Cavez over Tâmega.© Pedroⓘ
4 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 3 MIN

Bridges and rails: paths that change

Four stories to discover the shape of the bridges, the works that transform them and the old line that gained new steps. A path of reading between Cavez and Arco de Baúlhe e Vila Nune, without indicating a pedestrian itinerary.

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  1. The triangle facing the water
  2. Two eras in the same bridge
  3. A bridge that earned praise
  4. New footsteps on the old line
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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.

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  1. A botanist in the school library’s name
  2. In Arco, books found a home in 2005
  3. Care is part of history too
  4. A stream in the story of Casa do Tempo
  5. The market is a meeting place too
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10 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 10 MIN

Follow the water in a picture of 1758

Ten readings accompany the water in the memories of 1758: cultures, margins, mills and differences between parishes. Vila Nune's account also looks at Atei, on the other side of Tâmega. Compares what each author observed, without turning the documents into visiting maps.

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  1. Storing water from the hillside
  2. Two rivers lost their names
  3. Two streams kept six mills working
  4. A river that powered mills but did not irrigate
  5. Work could be seen on the opposite bank
  6. Two rivers meet at Ranha
  7. Water irrigated fields and made olive oil
  8. Bridges put to the winter test
  9. Trout, nase and chub in the river’s memory
  10. The river became part of farming life
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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.

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  1. The landscape offers a clue to the name
  2. Three sites, several layers of the past
  3. Baskets that hold knowledge
  4. Learning a craft beside a master
  5. Before the clog, a piece of alder
  6. Carolinas: a name to wear
  7. From the fair to work in the fields
  8. Two ox carts full of footwear
  9. A medieval image found in the earth
  10. When sculptures left the church
  11. Three names in a devotional calendar
  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.

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  1. The river became part of farming life
  2. Not every bridge was made of stone
  3. Olela had days for gathering
  4. When parishes came together
  5. A church told through images
  6. Bread, wine and olive oil in a portrait of the land
  7. News depended on Raposeira
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9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Painzela: gardens and layers of memory

Nine readings between gardens, chapels, documents and people. Opens the chronologies, distinguishes dates from buildings and documents and knows the route of Baltazar Castro. It is a reading sequence, without assuming access to private properties.

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  1. One house, two centuries in view
  2. Plants shaped by human hands
  3. Water shapes the garden at Piellas
  4. A chapel helps us read a house
  5. How was a parish counted?
  6. Painzela was not isolated
  7. A chapel leaves a trail in the archive
  8. From Painzela to leading monument conservation
  9. A parish meets through games and song
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Panoramic view of Vilela, Rio Douro, with houses and agricultural plots on the slopes.
Vilela · architecture and landscape of Rio Douro© Ambcruzⓘ
11 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 10 MIN

Riodouro: from mountain to water

Eleven readings between villages, chapels, watering, animals and work. Compares the portrait of 1758, knows the pison and ends in the memory of collective shepherding of Cambezes. Reports maintain their time and do not define current conditions of visit.

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  1. Moscoso looks out over the valley
  2. Fifteen settlements, a network of chapels
  3. From spring to fields
  4. Two rivers tell a parish’s story
  5. In summer, the water took other paths
  6. Fish in an old portrait
  7. Animals remembered in the mountains
  8. Water worked the wool too
  9. Granite shapes the village too
  10. The village that remained in memory
  11. The herd was the village’s concern too
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9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

St Nicholas: water, houses and paths

Nine stories between water, houses and collective life of São Nicolau. From the bridges and mills described in 1758 to the use of water in Covas, compares documents from different times. It continues by architecture, by the old school and by the memory that dances.

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  1. A landscape described in 1758
  2. Bridges put to the winter test
  3. Water irrigated fields and made olive oil
  4. A hollowed log channelled the water’s power
  5. Three houses, three details
  6. Five altars, many stories
  7. When a chapel shortened the journey
  8. The school brought the village together again
  9. A memory you can dance
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12 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas: do and share

Twelve stories link documents, villages, bridges, water, crafts and sharing of the popes. Draws the levada of the neighborhood, compares materials and discovers the people behind the memories. It is a path of reading, without implicit visits or events.

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  1. Two old portraits, two ways of counting
  2. Vilar looks towards the Beça
  3. Three bridges, three stories of passage
  4. Four pools and a shared irrigation channel
  5. A village, a manor house and two legends
  6. Barrosã cattle helped work the land
  7. Wool became socks too
  8. A house with three granaries
  9. A house organised the celebration
  10. Broa gained a new tool
  11. A rod measures the sharing
  12. Keeping Samão’s memory alive
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Granite mill served by Levada de Víbora, in all Moinhos de Rei, with waterfall and canal in the wooded surroundings. Register 2025.
Moinhos de Rei · the place of grinding© Joseolgonⓘ
9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Abadim: marks on the landscape

Nine stories to connect the mountains, fields and water to the marks of local power. Observes tower and pillory, compares the administration of 1758 and discovers two dates in Casa da Ramada. It is a reading route without indicating a walk or access to the buildings.

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  1. A village above a thousand metres
  2. Within one parish, the harvest changed
  3. From settlement to farmstead
  4. Stone preserved drawings too
  5. Two streams kept six mills working
  6. Flour brought revenue to the king too
  7. A tower worth looking at slowly
  8. A star on the pillory
  9. Two dates do not tell a house’s whole story
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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

The hand-made mountains

Eight stories about between help, water, harvests, wool, fabrics and materials of the houses. Find out how the work connected the villages to the fairs and try to organize a wheel of shifts on paper. It is a reading route, without displacements.

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  1. The herd was the village’s concern too
  2. Water had its turn
  3. Maize left its mark on the village
  4. Clothing for mountain life
  5. Textiles that left the village
  6. Water worked the wool too
  7. Stone walls, thatched roofs
  8. Learning a craft beside a master
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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 4 MIN

At the village table

From family kitchen to shared party: five stories about food, objects and mutual help.

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  1. At Christmas, back to the hearth
  2. Lunch at nine in the morning?
  3. Sweets had luggage too
  4. The papas begin before dawn
  5. A rod measures the sharing
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Turntable and tracks at the former Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway vehicles in the background.
Former station Arco de Baúlhe · railway heritage© JP Ribeiroⓘ
9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

A season, many stories

Nine stories follow the arrival of the line, the vehicles, the life of the station and the transformation of the channel into Ecopist. Two chronologies distinguish works and new uses. Matamá Bridge is in Celorico from Basto; this is a reading sequence, not a pedestrian itinerary.

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  1. A railway took forty years to arrive
  2. To reach Arco, the line had to cross another valley
  3. The tiles arrived before the train
  4. A seat in third class
  5. A petrol engine on the rails
  6. A small jug helped care for the train
  7. A station that blossomed too
  8. The train stopped, the memory stayed
  9. New footsteps on the old line
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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.

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  1. A road helps explain Faia
  2. A parish told through sixteen settlements
  3. Tojeira did not stand still in one century
  4. In Faia, fruit matters too
  5. Wood holds the wine too
  6. In Faia, hands made footwear too
  7. Chapels among hills and houses
  8. Five altars to read a church
  9. A stream with a date to keep
  10. A year of work, a church reopened
  11. Roots and light renew a chapel
  12. The year was counted in fairs too
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11 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Alvite: from fields to memory

Eleven readings link fields, water, work, fair, justice, church and chapels of Alvite. It compares the strength of animals with the uses of water and the different charges of places of worship. The memories of 1758 preserve their time; the sequence does not indicate a walk.

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  1. There was more than maize in the fields
  2. Orada changed from summit to valley
  3. Storing water from the hillside
  4. When animals powered the oil mill
  5. The bulls came from Barroso
  6. One place, two jurisdictions
  7. The earthquake entered Alvite’s account
  8. Orada was grazing land too
  9. Three altars in one nave
  10. Six chapels, different responsibilities
  11. A chapel against the rock
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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Bucos: wool, fields and paths

Eight stories link wool, fields, rivers, mail and places of worship of Bucos. It compares the daily life of 1758 with the transmission of crafts in 2024–2026, including a meeting in Rio Douro. The Casa da Lã has its own record to prepare a visit.

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  1. Clothing for mountain life
  2. Bucos’s wool travels with those who teach
  3. Three grains in one landscape
  4. Two rivers lost their names
  5. A small bridge on a long route
  6. Letters arrived through another place
  7. A chapel shortened the distance
  8. Gold and red in the church
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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.
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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.

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  1. Two organs, one of them silent
  2. Wood inside, shine outside
  3. What the frame was hiding
  4. A star on the pillory
  5. Five arches, more than one era
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Turntable and tracks at the former Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway vehicles in the background.
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.

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  1. From Cancela to portraits of Brazil
  2. A botanist in the school library’s name
  3. The station keeps documents too
  4. In Arco, books found a home in 2005
  5. Conserving a bridge also makes 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.

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  1. Discover Cabeceiras in books too
  2. Between a monastery and a university
  3. A chalice full of figures
  4. The donor is not necessarily the maker
  5. From Refojos to Coimbra, a story on the move
  6. After the monks, new 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.

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  1. From prison to music
  2. A street holds crafts too
  3. Feira dos Trinta had a meeting day
  4. When football gained a pitch
  5. Freight had its appointed day
  6. After the monks, new 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.

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  1. A dish that crossed the centuries
  2. Wood inside, shine outside
  3. A painting belongs to a larger story
  4. What the frame was hiding
  5. Three sides to a small sculpture
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Estátua do Basto in Refojos, with circular shield, pedestal and municipal identification plate.
Estátua do Basto in Refojos · monument photograph© Joseolgonⓘ
8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

The marks that time left on the ground

Fossas, villages, sculptures and graves: eight readings bring different times closer to the territory. Follow archaeological interpretations and their uncertainties. It is a reading sequence, not a roadmap for access to sites.

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  1. The ground held stores too
  2. A settlement shaped by the hillside
  3. Tombs and settlement: a connection to investigate
  4. Before the railway, a hillfort
  5. Warriors preserved in stone
  6. Settlement shifted between mountain and valley
  7. Two graves, one direction
  8. A castle read through the ground
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Turntable and tracks at the former Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway vehicles in the background.
Former station Arco de Baúlhe · railway heritage© JP Ribeiroⓘ
10 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

The Tâmega line tells stories

From the Arch station to the lighting, signalling, maintenance and transport parts of the mail: ten readings on the railway memory and the passage from station to museum. The chips distinguish the documented places of the objects whose use was not located.

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  1. A railway took forty years to arrive
  2. The tiles arrived before the train
  3. A station by lamplight
  4. A seat in third class
  5. The last light told a story
  6. A petrol engine on the rails
  7. A small jug helped care for the train
  8. A station that blossomed too
  9. Mail travelled by train too
  10. The train stopped, the memory stayed
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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Detectives of the past

Eight stories to investigate documents, numbers and borders. Find out why they review forals, distinguish aggregates from inhabitants and open the chronology of Passos. Proposals help separate what a source confirms from the questions it leaves unanswered.

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  1. Two charters, seven days
  2. Three questions for the past: land, mountains and rivers
  3. What was a fogo?
  4. How was a parish counted?
  5. A chapel leaves a trail in the archive
  6. Two walls and a story of wolves
  7. One place, two jurisdictions
  8. Passos changed municipalities
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6 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

Pedraça: houses, names and documents

Six readings to discover Pedraça: ancient names, links to Coimbra, houses, oral tradition, an object of wine and the change of energy in the mills. A route of reading, without presupposing access to the properties.

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  1. Pedraça once had another written name
  2. A link from Pedraça to Coimbra
  3. Pedraça can be told through its houses too
  4. A house between memory and evidence
  5. One almude, two colours remembered
  6. Behind the factory, another time
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Facade of Igreja de Santa Senhorinha of Basto, with its two towers
Igreja de Santa Senhorinha, popularly known as the Sé of Basto.© Bocacheteⓘ
7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 6 MIN

Holy Lady: places, books and devotion

Seven stories bring together the valley, the houses, the images of the church, the copied accounts, the food and the offerings. Comparing documents and interpretations to discover how the memory of St.

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  1. A valley full of names
  2. A “Sé” and houses with memories
  3. A church told through images
  4. A story that reached us in copies
  5. The story of the frogs that fell silent
  6. Bread tells a story of devotion too
  7. Devotion in a candle
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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.
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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.

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  1. A monastery older than certainty
  2. Between a monastery and a university
  3. Two organs, one of them silent
  4. Wood inside, shine outside
  5. Beyond the church, cultivated land
  6. A small prayer card, a shared concern
  7. After the monks, new lives
  8. A stream in the story of Casa do Tempo
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Ponte de Cavez on the river Tâmega, with stone arches, board and wooded banks.
Partial view of the Ponte de Cavez over the Tâmega.© Joseolgonⓘ
8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Cavez: from bridge to village life

Eight stories to accompany the bridge over the centuries and enter the lives of the villages. Opens the chronology, distinguishes legend and document and discovers chapels, mail, mills and coal. It is a route of reading, without indicating a pedestrian itinerary.

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  1. Five arches, more than one era
  2. The voice that said to build further upstream
  3. A bridge that earned praise
  4. Eight settlements and six chapels
  5. A river that powered mills but did not irrigate
  6. The mountains supplied charcoal too
  7. Conserving a bridge also makes history
  8. To the pilgrimage, clogs in hand
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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.

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  1. One parish, many small settlements
  2. News had its own arrival day
  3. News depended on Raposeira
  4. Letters had their arrival days
  5. Letters arrived through another place
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