THE ROUTE OF FRESCO: 18 YEARS OF HERITAGE DEMOCRATIZATION
Catarina Valença Gonçalves Founder & SPIRA's CEO – Heritage Revival Alentejo's mural painting had its origin in all sorts of patrons (nobles, confraternities / brotherhoods, religious missions, commissions), and it coved all...
Castles and Town Walls of the Mondego Network: the "Reconquista"!
Castles and Town Walls of the Mondego Network Coordinator The creation of the Castles and Town Walls of the Mondego Network in 2011 embodied a joint will to enhance the medieval heritage, both the tangible and the intangible, which was part of the defensive line...
365 days in Fundão
Alcina Cerdeira Municipal Council for Tourism in Fundão Fundão is the council where the ratio diversity/quality is most obvious in the entire Beira Interior region, at the level of the agro alimentary and tourism sectors. Around ten years ago, the municipality of Fundão assumed as....
The declinations of Romanesque according to the Route
António Ponte Regional Director for Northern Culture In Portugal the expansion of Romanesque architecture coincides with the reign of D. Afonso Henriques, when the works on the Cathedrals of Lisbon, Coimbra and Oporto and Coimbra and Oporto began and the Monastery ...
The Romanesque Route – in the North of Portugal
Melchior Moreira President of Oporto and North of Portugal Tourism – ER The Romanesque Route in the North of Portugal is one of the most beautiful and interesting examples of how it's possible to retrieve the invaluable heritage of a territory,...
Leiria's National Forest
Rita Matos Gomes, Nature and Forests Conservation Institute, IP Leiria's National Forest (LNF) property of the Portuguese State, has around 11 000 ha, and it's located at the council's coast line...
Romanesque Route – An experience founded on History.
Rosario Correia Machado Director of Romanesque Route In the land of the valleys Sousa, Douro and Tamega valleys, in the heart of North Portugal, stands an important architectural heritage of Romanesque origin. Common traits that keep legends and stories born ....
Inês de Castro - biographical note
Inês de Castro was born in Galicia, Spain,, according to the tradition in Monforte de Lemos, she was an illegitimate daughter of an important galician warrior, D. Pedro Fernandez Castro, that had the nicknamed "that of the war", and a Portuguese lady, D. Aldonça Valadares. As a lady in waiting of her cousin, D. Constança...
Miguel Torga's Travels through Portugal
Professor Clara Crabbé Rock Daughter of Miguel Torga Another of the author's passions is to know Portugal. Since the time of his stay in Leiria, he crosses the country from an end to the other, noting the landscapes, monuments, ways of speaking, the flavors of bread and wine, the feature of the people ....
Celebrating Christmas
Father João Torres, Parish of São Tiago of Priscos | Organization committee of the Live Nativity Scene. The nativity scene it’s still one of the main Christmas symbols all over the world, and Portugal doesn’t looses sight of tradition. This is the 9th consecutive year and we have not ...
Chestnut Trees
José Gomes Laranjo, Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, President of RefCast – Portuguese Association of the Chestnut. Centenarians or not, some majestic, chestnut trees have always been the side of humanity, we may even said that it is....
Wine Tourism as a Mean to Value Wine Heritage
By definition, wine tourism, designates a set of touristic services, leisure activities and free time, dedicated to the discovery and to cultural and oenophile pleasure of vinyards and wine.