A small bridge, a long way
Married was in the way of a lot of people.
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In Casares, a wooden bridge integrated the real road to Braga and communications with Trás-os-Montes, according to the memory of 1758. Before the movement, the vicar defended building it in stone. It was a request, not the confirmation of a work.
The source distinguishes this passage from small walkways made with a wooden beam, for pedestrians. Different paths responded to different uses.
The passage not only served the village. The vicar describes a public road and very frequented, linking Braga to the term of Basto and Trás-os-Montes. The bridge emerges, as a local point of a larger network. The recommendation to replace it by chanting shows the author to assess a need, besides inventing what existed.
In the same rivers, the water moved mills and was used by farmers in the fields. The crossing, grinding and watering appear in the same portrait of the territory. A bridge can be read by what it allows to do: reach another place, maintain a communication or approximate works separated by water.
Paths that served the life of the village
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Receiving news for Fox
The letters arrived elsewhere →Approaching the worship of residents
A chapel shortened the distance →Connect rivers, fields and mills
Two rivers lost their name →Imagine the colors of the church
Gold and red in church →
Source and context
Municipality — Parish memories of Bucos (1758)
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