Stories of Cabeceiras

In June 2020, the Municipality announced the assignment of names to ruins of the village to remember figures of the history of the Monastery. Among them were the Abbot Diogo of Murça, the notchmaker Vilaça and Gueda Mendes, associated with the offer of the medieval chalice. The same decision recovered ancient toponyms from places of Refojos. The toponym thus approximates two memories: people who marked the heritage and names that the inhabitants used to recognize their places.

Julio Augusto Henriques was born in 1838 in Arco de Baúlhe and excelled in Botany. In June 2013, the Municipality honored him by naming the library of the Basic School of Arc. The news recalls the departure to Coimbra at the age of sixteen and its dedication to science. Knowing the patron transforms a name at the school door into a link between the homeland, study and collective memory. This is the school library, distinct from the Municipal Library Dr. Antonio Teixeira de Carvalho.