Art in Douro

The Douro is not only one land of history, but also of culture and modernity. Its art is tied with the region, what it does not hinder to open the doors the more modern forms of art, as the cinema, the plastic arts and literature.

In a new opening before the world, the Douro opened its doors to a style of modern life, more come back toward the culture and the art. To prove it it is the Biennial International of Engraving of the Douro, recognized internationally for the people of the artistic way, that shows a panoply of plastic works of art, displayed in some places of the region.

Beyond this gamma of expositions, the Museum of the Douro contains the permanent exposition Memory of the Land of the Wine, where if they can observe parts related with the vinícola activity. Some museums in all exist the region, being each one of them specialized in one determined area. The Museum of Lamego locks up decorative works of art sacra and, of strong conventual expression, to the step that the Museum of the Côa contains artifacts related with daily pay-history.

(Century XIX) enters the time of the Romantismo and the beginning of the Saudosismo (century XX), the Douro saw to be born illustrious writers who had told its landscapes. In the writings of Miguel Torga, one of the biggest Portuguese poets of the passed century, the references to the Douro are innumerable. João de Araújo leather strap and Aquiline Ribeiro had told the gentes of the region, while Junqueiro war turned the golden river. Trindade Coelho, Monteiro Sundays and Pina de Morais are other writers born in durienses lands.

The Douro never will erase the image of a on land to its roots and traditions, but it will be able to become in a passed and present compound of, adding its secular glories to the joviality of the art contemporary.