Famalicão goes back six thousand years in history to reflect on the future of the landscape of the territory
10-01-2022
Have you ever imagined how the landscape of your territory would be many thousands of years ago? More precisely, what it would have been like 6,000 years ago, when the first settlements appeared? That's exactly what Casa do Território, from Devesa Park in Vila Nova de Famalicão, proposed to do with the exhibition "Naturally Famalicão - Chronology of a Landscape", which will be on show from January 21st to August 28th.
Starting from a set of diagrams and drawings that try to portray the famalicense landscape of six thousand years ago, the exhibition proposes a journey through the history of the landscape, starting at the time when the first villages appeared until the present day, in an invitation to reflect on what is intended for the territory in the future.
Also composed by several 360-degree panoramic photographs that show the territory's evolution, the exhibition will also offer a set of sensory experiences.
"To better envisage a future for the territory that sustains us, it is important to know its past. The path that brought us to the order we know today, which accompanied the advance of technology, had the influence of distant peoples, the climate and even pandemics. But it is to the successive generations of local inhabitants and their wishes and desires that we owe this construction based on a once natural territory", explains the exhibition coordinator, ecologist Vasco Flores Cruz.
The question that arises is "what would an inhabitant of the Castro das Eiras think if on leaving the baths, under the Pedra Formosa opening, they found the landscape that we built? And we, what landscape would we like to leave to future generations?"
In addition to the exhibition itself, the exhibition also includes a programme of parallel activities such as workshops, guided tours for families, with children and creative work on the theme of landscape.
There will also be visits to the territory with commented tours, namely to the East River channelling works, through a walking trail and a visit to the S. Marçal Mill, the rehabilitation and reconstitution works of Pisão and Castro das Eiras and Vermoim Castle, besides other activities aimed at schools.
A conference entitled "Times change, landscapes change", scheduled for 22nd April, the date of the World Earth Day, with several guests, is also planned.
Famalicão goes back six thousand years in history to reflect on the future of the landscape of the territory
10-01-2022
Have you ever imagined how the landscape of your territory would be many thousands of years ago? More precisely, what it would have been like 6,000 years ago, when the first settlements appeared? That's exactly what Casa do Território, from Devesa Park in Vila Nova de Famalicão, proposed to do with the exhibition "Naturally Famalicão - Chronology of a Landscape", which will be on show from January 21st to August 28th.
Starting from a set of diagrams and drawings that try to portray the famalicense landscape of six thousand years ago, the exhibition proposes a journey through the history of the landscape, starting at the time when the first villages appeared until the present day, in an invitation to reflect on what is intended for the territory in the future.
Also composed by several 360-degree panoramic photographs that show the territory's evolution, the exhibition will also offer a set of sensory experiences.
"To better envisage a future for the territory that sustains us, it is important to know its past. The path that brought us to the order we know today, which accompanied the advance of technology, had the influence of distant peoples, the climate and even pandemics. But it is to the successive generations of local inhabitants and their wishes and desires that we owe this construction based on a once natural territory", explains the exhibition coordinator, ecologist Vasco Flores Cruz.
The question that arises is "what would an inhabitant of the Castro das Eiras think if on leaving the baths, under the Pedra Formosa opening, they found the landscape that we built? And we, what landscape would we like to leave to future generations?"
In addition to the exhibition itself, the exhibition also includes a programme of parallel activities such as workshops, guided tours for families, with children and creative work on the theme of landscape.
There will also be visits to the territory with commented tours, namely to the East River channelling works, through a walking trail and a visit to the S. Marçal Mill, the rehabilitation and reconstitution works of Pisão and Castro das Eiras and Vermoim Castle, besides other activities aimed at schools.
A conference entitled "Times change, landscapes change", scheduled for 22nd April, the date of the World Earth Day, with several guests, is also planned.