The hand-made mountains

The municipal guide presents Cambezes through archaeological remains, legends and a life marked by mutual help. It highlights collaboration in tasks and shepherding instead.

This memory invites you to look at the village beyond the houses: also the relationships between people are part of the heritage. The source does not describe the scale of pastors nor confirms a current calendar.

The turner highlights a way to organize shepherding among inhabitants. To understand how it worked in Cambezes, it would be interesting to know the rules, the participation of houses and changes over time. The guide does not provide these details. The collaboration mentioned is a starting point to collect memory, not a ready scale of tasks.

Compare this story with the water shifts of Levada de Víbora: both speak of collective organization, but only the leva survey describes eleven shifts of twenty-four hours. Transporting this rule to Cambezes' flock would invent a similarity that sources do not demonstrate.

The survey of 4 March 2008 describes water from the Levada de Víbora shared in eleven 24-hour turns, called casais. Each turn began at sunset and ended at the following sunset. The starting order changed from year to year.

The names came from houses in Abadim: six casais were associated with Aldeia da Torre and five with Santo António. The granite channel carried water from the Busteliberne stream for irrigation and milling. The levada therefore had both a visible structure and an equally important organisation of time. These details belong to the 2008 inventory, not a current irrigation schedule.

The corn marked the economy of Carrazedo and left signs built: the canasters, also called granaries. The municipal guide gives the largest example a capacity between 14 and 18 tons of corn.

It is a dimension that helps to imagine the importance of keeping the harvest. It is the capacity referred to in the source, not the quantity currently stored. The photograph allows to observe the construction.

The municipal page of Bucos presents the Espigueiro da Casa de Fundevilla, in Carrazedo, among the elements of the heritage of the parish. The building makes visible a phase that stands between the harvest and the milling: store the cereal. It is not a mill, nor its capacity indicates how much corn a family produced in a year.

To follow the way of food, connect three places in the readings: the field where the cereal grows, the tree where it is stored and the mill where it is transformed. The sequence helps to perceive distinct functions without imagining that all the buildings presented belonged to the same exploration.

A blanket, a blanket and a hood respond to different needs: cover, warm and shelter those who work outdoors. The municipal presentation associates to Bucos Barroso's blankets, shepherd's capuchas and quilts, linking wool to pastoral life and weaving.

The same source places the handicrafts in a daily life in which the nearby resources served to make houses, clothing and utensils. It also refers to the passage of many objects of a mainly utilitarian function for decorative uses. Looking at a piece is asking what it is made of, what it served and what place it has today.

The Casa da Lã, inaugurated in 2012, gives a place of interpretation to this work. The municipal presentation highlights the possibility of monitoring different tasks performed by the Women of Bucos, by marking. It is not just about looking at finished pieces: the gestures and the experience of those who perform them are also part of the heritage. The space file gathers practical information to prepare the visit.

The memory of Formigueiro gathers blankets, quilts, towels and blankets made of wool, linen and rags. The municipal guide links its sale to the fairs of São Miguel, in Cabeceiras, and Santa Luzia, in Arco de Baúlhe.

Following these fabrics is connecting the work within the village to the movement of people and goods. The report retains a commercial memory, not a list of current banks.

Next to the brook of Cavez, an old building gathered the work of wool and cereals: there it was trampled — tightened — wool and milled. The municipal description places the ruins at the descent of Formigueiro. The trail allows to know this memory of the work; access to the interior is not confirmed.

It is important to separate operations: treading wool and grinding cereal are different jobs, although the description gathers them in that building. One cannot imagine a single machine producing flour and treating wool without documentation of the mechanism. The municipal presentation refers to traces of artifacts in the ruins, but does not offer an inventory that allows to reconstruct all the pieces.

The same landscape connects work and relief. Formigueiro is above the pison, in a descent that the source describes as accentuated; the Nariz do Mundo corresponds to another element of the route, aimed at reading the valley. Knowing the history of the device and preparing a walk are complementary tasks: distance, difficulty and conditions belong to the track record.

The municipal presentation of the village describes stone houses and some stalk covers. It also recalls the name Casal da Urzeira, associated with the heather of the hills. There are two ways to read the connection between the village and the landscape: in the materials of the houses and in the memory of the name. The same description associates the village with agriculture, animal husbandry and the work of flax and wool. The portrait helps relate houses, fields and crafts. It's an asset presentation, without confirming how many hives remain today.

In the study published in 2017, Teresa Soeiro tells that Manuel Alves Leite, born in Pinhel in 1899, learned from Bernardino José Pereira, Sobreira's tamanqueiro. The knowledge was transmitted to the descendants. This learning history brings the tamancaria closer to families and places, without assuming that the workshop remains open.

The inventory of the Museum allows you to enter the work space. It calls craft to the low table used by Manuel António Teixeira Leite. A bank with a small strain served as support in the finishing of the sticks; a form of wood and leather links production to the generation of Manuel Alves Leite. The objects show different supports of the work, without reconstructing the disposition of a concrete workshop.

The measures help distinguish the supports: table T15 is 82 cm long, 74 wide and 55 high; seat T14, 87 long, 28 wide and 50 high. Despite close lengths, they offer very different surfaces. The inventory connects the seat to the finish of the sticks, supported by a small stem.