Before Vilar, Vila Seca
Names also keep changes in the territory.
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Vila Seca is the former designation of Vilar de Cunhas remembered by the Municipality. The presentation gathers three villages: Vilar, Cunhas and Uz.
It also distinguishes plateau and mountain areas, associated with agriculture and pastoral care. A parish name can therefore cover different settlements and landscapes. The source does not date the change of designation.
The municipal presentation places this territory near Montalegre and Ribeira de Pena. This position helps to understand a landscape that continues beyond the administrative limit: the villages belong to the municipality, but the valleys and relations between places invite also to look at the neighboring territories.
Three villages, various ways to know
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Vilar: the slope and Beça
Vilar looks at Beça →Cunhas: manor and legends
A village between a manor and two legends →Uz: stone and stalk
Stone on the walls, colme on the roof →Compare 1758 records
Two old portraits, two ways to count →
Source and context
Municipality — Gondiães e Vilar de Cunhas, landscape, heritage and crafts
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.