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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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A small specimen with green leaves beside a tree trunk.
Freixo · Photography: João Lima
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5 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

There is life between water and earth

A restored margin, preserved fetuses, wastelands and a stream in the center of the village. Five stories to know the relationship of Cabeceiras with its watercourses. It is a reading route, not a pedestrian itinerary.

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  1. The river also has a forest
  2. Wood, stone and coconut on the shores of Peio
  3. Clearing a stream is also knowing what stays
  4. In the wasteland, the forest finds the water lines
  5. A stream in the history of Casa do Tempo
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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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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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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

Read the landscape: from stone to river

Eight readings of granite crystals to the veigas of Tâmega. Find out how the rock changes, what happens to the transported materials and what minerals enter the portrait of Cabeceiras. A discovery path to read at your pace, without mandatory displacements.

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  1. The mountains is also read in stone
  2. Granite also changes grain
  3. The small grains tell how the rock cooled
  4. A story with millions of years
  5. Not all the stone is granite
  6. There's more to the stone than you can see
  7. The river also helps explain the fields
  8. The water from here also reaches the Douro
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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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Granite mill served by Levada de Víbora, in all Moinhos de Rei, with waterfall and canal in the wooded surroundings. Register 2025.
A mill and the water channel at Moinhos de Rei.© Joseolgonⓘ
9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

From water to bread

Nine stories to follow the water saved, the levada, the floors of the mill and the way to the table. The reading of Levada de Víbora links these explanations to the landscape of Abadim; the track record retains practical information. A path to read and explore.

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  1. Before grinding, it was necessary to store water
  2. The water also had a built path
  3. Follow the path of the water
  4. Above, the grinding; below, the movement
  5. The water had its turn
  6. Peio also made flour
  7. The corn left a mark on the village
  8. The bread kept the next batch
  9. A snack with bread still warm
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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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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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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

Small lives, big surprises

It looks at nature on the scale of details: leaves, insects, a shell with bands and a slug with spots. It compares shapes and experiences the activities, distinguishing local photographs from general explanations about the species.

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  1. The river also has a forest
  2. A little bird that dives
  3. A carnivorous plant in the mountains
  4. From flower to flower, a shared task
  5. A log can be a small house
  6. An old log still feeds life
  7. A shell, lots of drawings
  8. A leopard-shaped slug
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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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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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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.

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  1. The river also has a forest
  2. A willow, many possibilities
  3. Seeds that travel through the water
  4. Blood changes the color of fruits
  5. A small frog, a large water connection
  6. A little bird that dives
  7. The otter wears the scuba suit
  8. A mole connected to the current
  9. A mussel starts by traveling with a fish
  10. A lizard between the sun and the humidity
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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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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 6 MIN

The water that gathered the village

Follow the water between canals, fields and equipment. Compare forms of sharing and discover how an open levada passed the plumbing in Alvite. Historical documents help to read changes in the landscape; do not indicate current conditions of access.

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  1. Two puddles, shared water
  2. ♪ Four puddles, a neighborhood runaway ♪
  3. The water had a calendar.
  4. One water, several jobs
  5. Peio also made flour
  6. The stones of the road to the mill
  7. The water had its turn
  8. The water has changed its way
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6 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 5 MIN

Painzela, by the way of water

Six readings on water and transformation in Painzela: watering, moving a mill, going to electricity and drawing a garden. Comparing documents and representing the connections. It is a reading route, without displacements.

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  1. Seven consorts shared the levada
  2. The stream had the mill working
  3. When the mill changed energy
  4. The water draws the garden of Piellas
  5. One house, two centuries in sight
  6. Two rivers, a meeting in the Ranha
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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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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

Water: memory, work and life

From the wooden bridge to the seeds of the alder: eight readings link ancient testimonies, rural work and life on the shores. Each story indicates its time and scope. It is a sequence to read, not a pedestrian itinerary.

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  1. A bridge for loaded cars
  2. Bridges that winter put to the test
  3. The water watered and made oil
  4. Seven consorts shared the levada
  5. The fish that entered the memory
  6. The river also has a forest
  7. Seeds that travel through the water
  8. A little bird that dives
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A red mushroom cap with pale patches among fallen leaves.
Amanita muscaria · Photography: nsza
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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 9 MIN

There's a world under the feet

Follows a leaf, explores galleries and roots and accompanies the water to the river. Eight stories link the life of the soil to the landscape, with questions and proposals to observe without collecting.

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  1. Underfoot, a mixed world
  2. Worms also change the landscape
  3. There are little animals grazing in the fungi
  4. A meal prepared outside
  5. A fallen leaf still has its way
  6. Roots have partners
  7. The river begins before the shore
  8. The life of the river also tells a story
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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.

The photograph shows a young ash; it does not document the forest described in the study.

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7 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 6 MIN

A river beyond the surface

Seven stories to follow the water to the Douro and discover life under the surface. Explores the layers of the river, accompanies the transformation of an insect and draws a food network. Local references and dated studies are distinguished from general explanations of ecology.

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  1. The water from here also reaches the Douro
  2. Under the ground there's also water
  3. Water also reaches the light and fields
  4. The river also has a forest
  5. Small shelters underwater
  6. A fish's menu also has insects
  7. The life of the river also tells a story
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8 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 7 MIN

From the mountains to the valley, a landscape with life

Eight stories link relief, forests, forests, fields and seasons. Follows on paper the water flowing to the river and compares the landscape with the changes of the year. It is a guided reading, not a walking itinerary.

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  1. From the mountain to the valley, the map changes height
  2. The forest also has a history
  3. Medroneiro, carqueja and tojo
  4. Olives, cork oaks and vineyards
  5. The river also helps explain the fields
  6. The river begins before the shore
  7. A landscape needs connections
  8. The landscape has a rhythm of rain and heat
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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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Wooded edge and house in the photograph identified by the author as Passos, Cabeceiras de Basto.
Landscape of Passos · slope and house; the river referred to in the text is not identified in the image.© Elisabeth LEITEⓘ
9 HISTORIES · CERCA OF 8 MIN

From the mountain to the river: read the landscape

Nine stories to situate Cabeceiras: mountains, altitudes, villages, rivers and fields. It runs through Passos and Outeiro, opens the trout–Peio scheme and then follows the network to Douro. They are relationships to explore in reading, without indicating distances or an itinerary on the ground.

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  1. Cabreira, Barroso and Lameira
  2. From the mountain to the valley, the map changes height
  3. A village over a thousand meters
  4. A mountains and a river to locate Passos
  5. The Tâmega draws the limit
  6. A small river also draws the map
  7. The water from here also reaches the Douro
  8. Peio, gold and stream Cavez
  9. The river also helps explain the fields
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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ⓘ
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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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