Vineyard Villages
The wine villages, so
called since 2001, enclose a millenary history, closely related to the culture
of wine. These locations are subject to a re-qualification programme, which
aims to protect and rehabilitate the urban spaces and landscapes that include.
Every year, since 2007, is the Festival of the Wine Villages, during the months of September and October, filling the streets of shows, animation and activities. All the festivities are sponsored by local food and wine.
Every year, since 2007, is the Festival of the Wine Villages, during the months of September and October, filling the streets of shows, animation and activities. All the festivities are sponsored by local food and wine.
In the village of Favaios, located in the municipality of Alijó, homemade bread
and wine Moscatel do delight any visitorThe Museum of bread and wine is well
patented the importance of these two regional products. The history of old
Flavia dates back to the iron age, where people lived in fortified villages, forts,
with strategic positions, being still visible traces of these walls.
On one of the slopes of the river Távora is Barcos, the village municipality of
TabuaçoThis location is part of the place of Jenin, where he emerged the first
monastery in the region, during the high middle ages. For the territory of Barcos
some fifth agriculturists and of vinícola production extend themselves, as the
Fifth of Serro, told for Abel Botelho (1855-1917) in the story Cerro, of the
workmanship Women of the Sides, published in 1898. The First Church of Boats,
built in centuries XIII/XIV, was classified as National Monument, in 1922, and
constituted one of the elements most valuable of the locality.
In concelho of Sabrosa one of the oldest populations of the portuguese kingdom is placed, San Joanes, now called of Provesende. In this village the temple of Marinha Saint, dated of century IV or V, having been is placed donated to If of Braga for Queen D. Constança de Leão (c.1046-1093). It was in this locality that Joaquin Pine of Azevedo Leite Pereira (1829-1918), a duriense grape grower, started to fight filoxera, plague of century XIX, that it almost destroyed the culture of the wine of the Porto.
In Trevões, agriculture does not become only from the vines, producing, also, hortícolas oil, products, fruits, beyond wood proceeding from the pine and eucalipto. This village, of concelho of Is João of the Fishing one, lodges a museum, inaugurated in 2001, where on spaces to the quotidiana life of the clientele and its inhabitants and to its evolution throughout the centuries are recriados.
Of old Algeriz name, Salzedas is an agricultural accumulation located next to the river Lathe, in county of Tarouca. Couto of Algeriz was donated the D. Teresa Alfonso (c.1100-1171), for D. Alfonso Enriques (1109-1185), in 1163. Later, the widower of Egas Moniz (1080-1146) offered to the locality to monges benedictines, which had succeeded monges of Cister. These last ones had been responsible for a great agricultural development in the region, cultivating the fields that encircled the monasteries.
In the same county, one meets another village, Ucanha vineyard. This is one of the oldest populations of the region, a time that its origins retrace to the occupation Roman. It kept the municipal and legal autonomy until the o century XIX.
Although the particularitities of each one of the vineyard villages, all they partilham something in common: the culture of the wine, spread in the involving nature and for the gentes that work lands.
In concelho of Sabrosa one of the oldest populations of the portuguese kingdom is placed, San Joanes, now called of Provesende. In this village the temple of Marinha Saint, dated of century IV or V, having been is placed donated to If of Braga for Queen D. Constança de Leão (c.1046-1093). It was in this locality that Joaquin Pine of Azevedo Leite Pereira (1829-1918), a duriense grape grower, started to fight filoxera, plague of century XIX, that it almost destroyed the culture of the wine of the Porto.
In Trevões, agriculture does not become only from the vines, producing, also, hortícolas oil, products, fruits, beyond wood proceeding from the pine and eucalipto. This village, of concelho of Is João of the Fishing one, lodges a museum, inaugurated in 2001, where on spaces to the quotidiana life of the clientele and its inhabitants and to its evolution throughout the centuries are recriados.
Of old Algeriz name, Salzedas is an agricultural accumulation located next to the river Lathe, in county of Tarouca. Couto of Algeriz was donated the D. Teresa Alfonso (c.1100-1171), for D. Alfonso Enriques (1109-1185), in 1163. Later, the widower of Egas Moniz (1080-1146) offered to the locality to monges benedictines, which had succeeded monges of Cister. These last ones had been responsible for a great agricultural development in the region, cultivating the fields that encircled the monasteries.
In the same county, one meets another village, Ucanha vineyard. This is one of the oldest populations of the region, a time that its origins retrace to the occupation Roman. It kept the municipal and legal autonomy until the o century XIX.
Although the particularitities of each one of the vineyard villages, all they partilham something in common: the culture of the wine, spread in the involving nature and for the gentes that work lands.
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