Montalegre, capital of Terras de Barroso for 734 years, is located in the northernmost fold of the barrosão plateau. In effect, he assumed this privilege, on June 9, 1 273, by letter granted by King D. Afonso III. This monarch erected, for his safety and that of the whole land of Barroso, the admirable mediévica fortress, circumnavigating it from walls, where millennia before our most remote ancestors had built his oppidum (castro).
The municipality of Montalegre is located between several mountains, and the west has the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The towns of this municipality still preserve the vernacular architecture of this region. The community oven is a fundamental part of these villages. In almost all the villages in the municipality, where this community property existed, there was an obligation to heat the oven, which went around the houses of the village farmers, who were those who had the means to fetch firewood. As, for example, it happened in Alturas do Barroso, “Anyone who had a group of cows to transport the firewood, to heat the oven, was obliged by the use and custom to heat the oven.” He was called the cooker, and he was also responsible for scheduling the turn of the people who cooked after him. Thus, whoever wanted to cook, went to the cooker, asked him for his turn, to find out who he was going to cook with, and put a sign to mark his turn. The sign could be firewood, bush, etc. and as they started to cook, each one took their mark, so people would know who was going to cook next and prepare the dough.
Santo André, village of altitude, in the municipality of Montalegre. Like other villages in this municipality, it has a people's oven, where rye bread is baked, which, because it lasts less than corn, needed to be prepared more often, and hence th...
Portuguese enclave in the territory of Galicia, once protected by the now non-existent frontier castle of Piconha. In this village there is a community oven, here rye bread was also made
We are in the village of Outeiro in the Paradela reservoir, in the Peneda Gerês National Park, a mountain village close to Pitões das Júnias
We are close to the Paradela reservoir, in the Peneda Gerês National Park, between the village of Paredes do Rio and the Cávado River, which rises in the Serra do Larouco and empties into Esposende
This monastery dates back to an old pre-Romanesque hermitage, founded in the 9th century, whose implantation followed isolation criteria. It is located in a narrow valley, difficult to access and far from the paths and inhabited places, inscribed ...
This romanesque monastery is organized according to a trapezoidal plan, and the church is located on the north side and the convent facilities in the south. The divisions of the cenobium, largely collapsed, comprise two bodies: the first, parallel...
This monastery dates back to an old pre-Romanesque hermitage, founded in the 9th century, whose implantation followed isolation criteria. It is located in a narrow valley, difficult to access and far from the paths and inhabited places, inscribed ...
The source of the Campesinho stream near Chã dos Forninhos, the ESE of Pitões das Júnias. It has an approximate length of four kilometers and flows into the Beredo stream, a tributary of the right bank of the Cávado River
The kitchen, located at the SW angle, preserves the chimney in a pyramid shape with rounded pinnacle. An old sarcophagus reused in the wall receives the water from a puddle, channeled through a stone duct. The wall that limits the enclosure on the...
