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Palheiras Fiais of Beira (Oliveira do Hospital) (*)-and how we can not cease to exist as a country

March 23, 2011 by Castile
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For family reasons usually visit this fantastic collection of scenic and ethnographic Palheiras Fiais of Beira belonging to the parish of Oliveira do Hospital in Oliveira do Hospital.
One can not, strictly speaking, determining the date of construction of these floors shall palheiras and 75, but maybe somewhere in the risk nineteenth century, but nothing gives me such a guarantee. The houses "palheiras" served (and still do) to store grain and agricultural implements are made of loose stone tile covered with straw and planted in sunny granite outcrop. The Palheiras and "Lages" are associated with the process of cultivation, production and preparation of cereals (barley, rye, wheat, oats and corn) and the conservation of derived products (hay, straw and corn shales).

Palheiras fiais da beira 300x212 Palheiras dos Fiais da Beira (Oliveira do Hospital) (*) e como não podemos deixar de existir como País It is in fact the use by the Beira landscape granite, individually or collectively that created this exemplary and grain storage complex.
The return of "tiles", the simple one-storey buildings with character, but emphasize the strong relationship with the natural environment (rough, stony, poor, dense and gray), the result being a saving solutions and costs. Here the great simplicity of construction is tightened to each other outside releasing living space for common use, this space used for the mesh, drying and threshing cereal.

What is the main reason for visiting the palheiras Fiais of Beira?
It is an extraordinary set of 75 "palheiras" and threshing floors that display the old farm labor community life in Portugal dying


The set is like a living monument that allows an adequate reconstruction of agricultural practices with a penchant Community and conservation of certain agricultural processes still actuating.
Yes, friends, readers indifference to the rich heritage notable Portuguese is our fault and a bad attitude, I like to know who among you, except for local people know about this amazing set of palheiras and slabs? I bet almost nobody, Portugal is the last we have, but we can not quit, that because the development of cultural heritage, here too rural to be an important topic in the identification of a country.

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