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The Moliceiros Boats, Aveiro Lagoon and Channels

The Moliceiros Boats, Aveiro Lagoon and Channels

The harvesting of seaweed was another of activities that characterize the lagoon of life, whose landscape was painted by colorful and features typical boats of this activity, moliceiros. The seaweed is formed by aquatic plants that form in the submerged bed of the lagoon and it was used as a fertilizer on agricultural land margins. […]

Monastery of Arouca

Monastery of Arouca

The Monastery of Arouca is located in Arouca parish, town and municipality of the same name of the Porto Metropolitan Area and Northern Region, situated in the northeast of Aveiro, Portugal. According to documentary sources, was founded in the first half of the tenth century, as a small monastery inhabited by a religious community under […]

Art Nouveau, Itinerary in the Historic Center of Ílhavo

Art Nouveau, Itinerary in the Historic Center of Ílhavo

Also the travel of cod captains to other parts of the globe, and his taste for modern, coupled with the pragmatic nature of the Sea Men, favored the acquisition of taste for this style in the early twentieth century. For these two reasons, and also for local and regional tradition in the production and ceramic […]

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