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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 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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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. Store water coming from the hill
  2. Two rivers lost their name
  3. Two streams worked six mills
  4. A river that moved but did not water
  5. The work was on the other side
  6. Two rivers, a meeting in the Ranha
  7. The water watered and made oil
  8. Bridges that winter put to the test
  9. Trouts, scallops and berries in river memory
  10. The river entered the life of the fields
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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 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.

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  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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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 sight
  2. Plants that take shape
  3. The water draws the garden of Piellas
  4. A chapel helps to read the house
  5. How did you count a parish?
  6. Painzela was not isolated
  7. A chapel leaves a trail in the archive
  8. From Painzela to the direction of monuments
  9. A parish is also playing and singing
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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 look at the valley
  2. Fifteen places, a network of chapels
  3. From the spring to the fields
  4. Two rivers to count a parish
  5. In summer, the water took other paths
  6. The fish of an ancient portrait
  7. The animals that remained in the memory of the mountains
  8. Water also worked wool
  9. The granite also draws the village
  10. The village that stayed in memory
  11. The herd was also a village matter
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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 told in 1758
  2. Bridges that winter put to the test
  3. The water watered and made oil
  4. A log led the force of the water
  5. Three houses, three details
  6. Five altars, many stories
  7. When the chapel shortened the path
  8. The school brought the village back together
  9. A memory that also dances
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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 to count
  2. Vilar looks at Beça
  3. Three bridges, three passing stories
  4. ♪ Four puddles, a neighborhood runaway ♪
  5. A village between a manor and two legends
  6. Barrosan also helped to work the land
  7. The wool was also made in stockings
  8. A house with three granaries
  9. A house organized the party
  10. Broa changed tool
  11. A stick measures sharing
  12. Save Samon's Memory
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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 over a thousand meters
  2. In the same parish, the harvest changed
  3. From village to farm couple
  4. The stone also kept drawings
  5. Two streams worked six mills
  6. The flour also yielded to the king
  7. A tower to look slowly
  8. A star in the pillory
  9. Two dates don't count the whole house
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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 also a village matter
  2. The water had its turn
  3. The corn left a mark on the village
  4. Wool for mountain life
  5. Fabrics leaving the village
  6. Water also worked wool
  7. Stone on the walls, colme on the roof
  8. A craft learned alongside the 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, he would turn to the fireplace.
  2. Lunch at 9:00 in the morning?
  3. The candy also had luggage
  4. The popes begin before dawn
  5. A stick measures sharing
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Revolving plate and tracks from the old Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway equipment at the bottom.
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. One line took forty years to arrive
  2. To get to the Arc, the line needed to cross another valley
  3. Before the train, the tiles arrived
  4. A place in the third class
  5. A gas engine on the rails
  6. A little tin would help take care of the train.
  7. A season that also flourished
  8. The train stopped, the memory stayed
  9. The line has gained new steps
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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 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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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. In the fields, there was more than corn
  2. The Orada changed from high to valley
  3. Store water coming from the hill
  4. When the winepress walked with the animals
  5. The bulls came from Barroso
  6. One land, two skills
  7. The earthquake has reached the account of Alvite
  8. The Orada was also a land of shepherding
  9. Three altars in one body
  10. Six chapels, different responsibilities
  11. A chapel leaning against the stone
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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. Wool for mountain life
  2. The wool of Bucos also travels by the hands of those who teach
  3. Three cereals in the same landscape
  4. Two rivers lost their name
  5. A small bridge, a long way
  6. The letters came from somewhere else
  7. A chapel shortened the distance
  8. Gold and red in 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.
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.

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  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ⓘ
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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 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ⓘ
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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. 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ⓘ
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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 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.

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  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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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 floor also kept reserves
  2. A village drawn on the hillside
  3. Tombs and village: an uninvestigated connection
  4. Before the rails, a castro
  5. Warriors who stood on the stone
  6. Between the mountain and the valley, the settlement changed
  7. Two graves, one direction
  8. A castle you read on the ground
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Revolving plate and tracks from the old Arco de Baúlhe station, with buildings and railway equipment at the bottom.
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. One line took forty years to arrive
  2. Before the train, the tiles arrived
  3. A station in the light of oil
  4. A place in the third class
  5. The last light told a story
  6. A gas engine on the rails
  7. A little tin would help take care of the train.
  8. A season that also flourished
  9. The mail also traveled by train
  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 outcasts, seven days
  2. Three questions to the past: land, mountains and river
  3. What was a fire?
  4. How did you count a parish?
  5. A chapel leaves a trail in the archive
  6. Two walls and a story of wolves
  7. One land, two skills
  8. Passos changed municipality
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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 already had another name written
  2. A Pedraça call to Coimbra
  3. Pedraça is also counted by houses
  4. A house between memory and proof
  5. One almude, two colors in memory
  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ⓘ
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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 memory
  3. A Church Counted in Images
  4. A story that came in copies
  5. The story of frogs who shut up
  6. Bread also tells a story of devotion
  7. Devotion also fit 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.
Photography: Joseolgon · CC BY-SA 4.0
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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 mute
  4. Wood inside, glow outside
  5. Beyond the church, a 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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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 a while
  2. The voice that had built above
  3. A bridge that deserved praise
  4. Eight places and six chapels
  5. A river that moved but did not water
  6. The mountains also gave coal
  7. Keeping a bridge is also making history
  8. # To Rome with the punches in his 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. 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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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ⓘ
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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 Water
  2. Two seasons on the same bridge
  3. A bridge that deserved praise
  4. The line has gained new steps
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