Furdas & Pucilgas / Monsanto - Historic Village / Riding Portugal

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Monsanto cannot be seen in a day.
It took us four days and I still get the feeling that we didn't see everything. In fact, we always come with this feeling... I don't know if you have this idea when you travel too.
On the way to the castle we found a place that we initially didn't understand what it was. As we entered from the back we passed by the sign that explained what it was about.

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Monsanto não se vê num dia.
Nós levamos quatro dias e ainda assim fico com a sensação que não vimos tudo. Aliás, vimos sempre com esta sensação... Não sei se voçês ficam com esta ideia também quando viajam.
A caminho do castelo encontramos um local que inicialmente não percebia o que era.Como entramos pela parte de trás passamos ao lado da placa que explicava do que se tratava.


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Previously scattered throughout the town, the furdas – pigsties – were gathered in vacant lots, like this one, for public health reasons, lined up on the banks of the path that goes up to the castle from the east. Most furdas follow the traditional model: a shelter, generally circular, with dry stone walls and covered by a false dome of overlapping stones, covered in earth, with a door that leads to a walled courtyard.

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Antigamente espalhadas pela vila, as furdas – pocilgas – foram reunidas em terrenos baldios, como este, por razões de saúde pública, alinhadas nas margens da vereda que sobe até ao castelo pelo leste. A maioria das furdas acompanha o modelo tradicional: um abrigo, geralmente circular, com paredes de pedra seca e coberto por uma cúpula falsa de pedras sobrepostas, esta coberta de terra, com uma porta que nos leva a um pátio murado.


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In the past, pigs were an important source of food, processed into sausages, and their slaughter, known locally as slaughter, was a significant domestic task that became an annual festive family ritual.

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No passado, o porco era uma importante fonte de alimento, transformado em enchidos, e o seu abate, conhecido localmente como matação, era uma tarefa doméstica significativa que se tornava um ritual festivo anual em família.


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I remember very vaguely once when I was little I watched part of a massacre. I didn't witness the entire ritual so as not to be "offended". I remember seeing the pigs and then I remember seeing my aunts making sausages and drying them by the fire.

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Recordo-me muito vagamente de uma vez em pequena ter assistido a parte de uma matança. Não presenciei todo o ritual para não ficar "melindrada". Recordo-me de ver os porcos e depois recordo-me de já estar a ver as minhas tias a fazer os enchido e de ficarem a secar ao pé de uma fogueira.


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We no longer saw pigs here, but we still saw chickens and chicken coops :-)
We continued to climb and we even had the opportunity to see these beautiful handmade pieces (dolls, balls...) All arranged and identified with values ​​but with no one around!
I'll be back tomorrow :-)

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Por aqui já não vimos porcos, mas ainda vimos galinhas e galinheiros :-)
Continuamos a subir e ainda tivemos oportunidade de ver estas bonitas peças feitas à mão (bonecas, bolas...) Todas dispostas e identificadas com os valores mas sem ninguém por perto!
Volto amanhã :-)

I hope you enjoyed.
See you around.
Wishing you much peace and health

Those who pass by us do not go alone. They leave a bit of themselves, taking a piece of us."
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.

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Text & Photography by @Onyfest

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Wow .. amazing. I will remember this for next time we visit Portugal!

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