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The Moliceiros Boats, Aveiro Lagoon and Channels

tourist — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:12:25 +0000

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. Applying this method, farmers turned sandy soils fertile and very productive land.

The moliceiros, whose construction technique is specific, are now tourist attraction of Ria with its colors and decorations suggestive and unique, perform the carriage of passengers on tours by the navigable channels of the lagoon.

Casa Gafanhoa Museum, in Ílhavo

tourist — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:37:05 +0000

The House of Gafanhoa, constructed in the late 20s of the twentieth century, is an ancient dwelling farmers, restored and converted into the Municipal Museum November 11, 2000, currently managed by the Ethnographic Group of Gafanha of Nazareth.

Inside, there is a very strong testimony of the rural livelihoods of the city population, closely related to the chores Ocean and Ria featuring its Culture, Ethnography and Tradition.

Rua de São Francisco Xavier

3830-619 Gafanha da Nazaré

Phone: 234 364 024 / 234 329 600

E-mail: geral@cm-ilhavo.pt

GPS: 40°38’13.91” |-8°42’57.50”

The Ship Museum Santo André, in Ílhavo

tourist — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:54:36 +0000

The Ship Museum Santo André is a Ílhavo Maritime Museum. He was part of the Portuguese fleet of cod and is intended to illustrate the drag arts. This side trawler (or “classic”) was born in 1948 in the Netherlands by order of Aveiro Fishing Company. It was a modern ship, with 71.40 meters long and basement for twenty thousand fish yards (1,200 tons).

In the eighties came restrictions on fishing in open waters which resulted in the reduction of the fleet and the slaughter of much of it. The Santo André has not escaped the trend. The August 21, 1997 was dismantled. The owner of the vessel, António do Lago Cerqueira, Lda (Fisheries Tavares Mascarenhas, SA) and the Municipality of Aveiro decided to turn the old St. Andrew in museum ship. In August 2001, St. Andrew started a new cycle of life: show gifts and come as were the cod fisheries drag and honor the memory of all his
crew during half a century of activity.

The Ship Museum is anchored in Oudinot Garden in the city of Gafanha of Nazareth, the city of Aveiro.