{"id":50790,"date":"2016-04-04T16:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manteigastrilhosverdes.com\/english\/?page_id=50790"},"modified":"2018-08-16T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T16:02:28","slug":"patrimonio-cultural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manteigastrilhosverdes.com\/english\/descobrir-a-regiao\/patrimonio-cultural\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrim\u00f3nio cultural"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” oblique_section=”no” text_align=”left” triangle_shape=”no” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_accordion style=”accordion”][vc_accordion_tab title=”A legend about Manteigas”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Manteigas has got many legends and traditions.<\/p>\n

There are many reports which involve the imagination of all those who want to know even better this land full of natural beauty and a past with history.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]According to the Mythology:<\/p>\n

Hermes, son of Zeus and Maya, an agile and shrewd messenger and herald of the gods of the Olympus, who executed their orders faster than the thought\u2026 with some winged sandals in his feet\u2026a magical hat with wings\u2026 a caduceus as a stick with two wings also at its top\u2026him and the god of the flocks\u2026of the shepherds\u2026, disappointed with all the envies of his companions of the Court of the Olympus and knowing all the tricks less worth of the lord of all the gods, decided to hide in the most desert place, inaccessible to men and the gods, and chose\u00a0 as his favourite dwelling place Montes Herm\u00ednios, a place near the great Sea, where the intrigues of the lords of the Mediterranean Basin civilization didn\u2019t reach him. There was no problem for him at all. As he ran faster than the thought, his absences weren\u2019t even noticed by his divine partners.<\/p>\n

One day, Hermes (son of Zeus and Maya) woke up desolate\u2026 He had witnessed the slow slipping of the glacier which opened the deep Herm\u00ednios valley and at the end, the most beautiful locus amoenus anyone can imagine\u2026much more beautiful and attractive than the enchanted island of Crete, that place remained inhabited\u2026Now, it is right here that I want to found the land of my most faithful followers\u2026Hermes thought.<\/p>\n

Then, Hermes, the solitary lord of the most secret Mountains that even the Gods didn\u2019t know, sorry about his solitude, decided to attract to his secret nook the bravest and boldest shepherds on earth\u2026<\/p>\n

He discovered at the top village a young woman, still a child, that her mother cradled in her lap\u2026 As god of the flocks, he ordered one of his bulls to catch the mother unprepared and to take the child away. He ran with the child without being caught and then he left her next to some laurels and other species of willows, reeds and flowers that bordered the river, where, after the fury that it carried since C\u00e2ntaros where it was born until after the valley among the highest mountains, it began to change into a snake and transforming the riversides into fertile lands of green meadows, rich in pastures of all its flocks and flowers of the most varied colours\u2026<\/p>\n

It was there that the bravest neighbours of the mother came, who had seen her daughter taken by a bull, the one that seemed the most fierce of that herd of sparkling browns and, watching that fierce bull lovingly laying the child, whose name was Herm\u00ednia, among tuffs of herbs and flowers, and warming her with its fug, decided to breed there every species of cattle and flocks in the most plentiful and nourishing pastures one can imagine and, after some time, there were legions of people from the most different places and populations looking for animals and the milk that the lustrous cows and shiny goats and sheep produced and, as the milk ran abundantly, almost like the river and streams waters that fed it\u2026 they began to keep it in cream so that it was enough for everyone, always; they started to make another type of a delicious cream and\u00a0 one they called cheese and the other butter\u2026and as there was a delicious cream, changed into cheese and butter from all those different milks, each one with its most refined and tasty flavor, that\u2019s why that the Herm\u00ednias and Herm\u00ednios that followed, started being searched as the furnishers of the most delicious feasts that could only be compared with the nectar and ambrosia, the food only known by the Olympus gods and so they called it: Manteigas!<\/p>\n

Extracted from: www.joraga.net<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”F\u00e1tima \u2013 Legend of S. Jo\u00e3o in Beira Baixa”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Of the Muslim presence, the weirdest phenomenon is the cult of F\u00e1tima, by the shepherds, kept since the expulsion of the Moors and the arrival of the first Christian conquerors to Manteigas lands. Some authors from the 17th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup> centuries talk about the devotion of the mountain shepherds from Manteigas towards the Moorish princess F\u00e1tima, who is enchanted at the mountain and always protected them whenever they were distressed and invoked her. The name F\u00e1tima is kept in a mountain toponymy, in Manteigas, and at the beginning of this century, and according to some testimonies, the devotion is still present. (www.terrasdabeira.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Christian amount didn\u2019t give peace to the Muslim scimitar.<\/p>\n

As the Nazarenes were stronger, or happier, they took in their way the Mafoma henchmen.<\/p>\n

Repelled from fight to fight, chased without mercy, it was impossible for them to carry all the wealth they had acquired for centuries. So, they hid their things at the places they judged more adequate.<\/p>\n

It is from here that the popular imagination begins to expand. Those treasures were, according to the people, kept by enchanted Muslim women.<\/p>\n

The Arab king of Manteigas had a daughter called F\u00e1tima. She was as beautiful as the vision of the promised paradise by Mohammed and her father saw her as the most sensitive fibre of his soul. The Christian knights from the neighbourhoods tried really hard to take possession of the king\u2019s states, to captivate his daughter and to take his goods and jewels.<\/p>\n

The king wanted to resist, sheltered by the city walls, but since the attacker hosts were in an unknown number and resistance would be insane, he decided to escape through the most hidden ways of the mountain, taking his daughter and the rest of his wealth, which hadn\u2019t been put in a safe place yet.<\/p>\n

They walked the whole day but, at dusk, F\u00e1tima couldn\u2019t move anymore, she was dying of exhaustion. The situation was fearsome. How to help her in that clearing, the harshest place of the mountain? Suddenly, in front of them, a superb flowery way opened itself, cobbled with the thinnest stones, and at its end, a ray of light that enlightened everything as if the Sun was shining at the pinnacle.<\/p>\n

It was like a miracle operated by the Prophet, the salvation that appeared some steps ahead. So, the king, his daughter and the delegation felt the hope reviving in their hearts. They followed through the road that was open at their front and they entered a bright palace, so full of magnificent things that they were all amazed.<\/p>\n

What happened after this, no one knows, but in the days right after this, the people of the mountains saw many shepherds that no one knew in town going up and down the hills. They took some time in those places and they made several repeated visits to Coruto de Alf\u00e1tema, the name of the top of that mountain. One fine day, they disappeared, and no one ever saw them again.<\/p>\n

Those shepherds were disguised Moors, and it was because of their indiscretion that it was known that a good fairy, F\u00e1tima\u2019s godmother, had promised to keep her in her enchanted house, always young and beautiful until those faithful Koran partisans conquered Portugal again.<\/p>\n

This belief was old-established in the peasants\u2019 spirit and during the 12th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup> centuries there was a huge panic, believing that the Moors troops would arrive in search of the beautiful F\u00e1tima.<\/p>\n

The legend took even more shape in the candid spirit of the peasants when, a few years after the Christians took Manteigas, happened the following:<\/p>\n

A poor woman, of the most miserable of the village, had to go through Coruto de Alf\u00e1tema, at dawn, on Saint John\u00b4s day. Feeling tired, she sat on one of the many cliffs around to take some rest and eat some crusts of bread she had taken with her.<\/p>\n

The bread, hard after may days, could hardly be swallowed. When the unfortunate woman spoke evil of her life for having to eat such a food, she saw next to her a wide rack of dried figs.<\/p>\n

She ate some of them, and reminding of her children who cried far away, she filled a basket of them.<\/p>\n

She walked, jaunty, towards the cottage, enjoying in advance the joy that she was going to provide to the children. To her astonishment, when she uncovered the basket, instead of figs, she saw diamonds and sparkling gold coins.<\/p>\n

She was rich. But the beggar that minutes before had thanked God for only having to satisfy her hunger and that of her relatives, felt the ambition biting her. A basket of precious stones and of good golden coins was wasn\u2019t enough for her! She wanted to be very rich: She goes back to Coruto in a hurry. But the sun, which had risen in the horizon and shone then in the great uncloudy sky, pulled out from the polished surface of the rocks myriads of dazzling flickers. The spell was broken, the figs had disappeared. Completely distressed and despaired, tearing her hair, she was about to curse when she heard a very soft voice, singing:<\/p>\n

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It was yours all that you saw;<\/p>\n

Now you turned it into something in vain!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t pass by anymore<\/p>\n

In the morning of Saint John.<\/p>\n

Poverty didn\u2019t kill you<\/p>\n

But the ambition might.<\/p>\n

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Text by Eduardo Noronha \u2013 www.joraga.net[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Lenda da Princesa Estrela”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Nos tempos recuados da Idade M\u00e9dia, vivia junto dos Montes Herm\u00ednios, numa vasta plan\u00edcie, um rei godo, do povo muito amado. Houvera de sua mulher uma linda menina, branca como luar de Janeiro, cintilante como as estrelas douradas a luzir no firmamento nas noites l\u00edmpidas e puras.
\n\u2013 \u00c9 branca como as estrelas \u2013 diziam as aias que a vestiam. E os pais da princezinha sorriam de contentamento e diziam um para o outro: \u2013 Pois h\u00e1-de chamar-se Estrela.
\nEste lindo nome recebeu no Baptismo e, quanto mais crescia, mais as estrelinhas, suas irm\u00e3s, invejavam a sua beleza.
\nNa c\u00f4rte havia um cavaleiro esbelto chamado D. Diego (ou Diogo \u2013 j\u00e1 se n\u00e3o sabe ao certo) que gostava muito da princezinha. Muito se amavam, e passavam juntos, em alegria, horas infind\u00e1veis…
\nVeio um dia a guerra contra os \u00e1rabes, em terras distantes, e D. Diego partiu com o Rei. A linda Estrela ficou desolada, cheia de saudades, a chorar seu cavaleiro ausente.
\nO cora\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o suportava essa separa\u00e7\u00e3o j\u00e1 longa, e resolveu subir aos altos montes das redondezas a ver se avistava D. Diego no seu regresso. Foi com as aias at\u00e9 ao cimo dos mais altos penhascos onde trepava todos os dias na esperan\u00e7a de ver, ao longe, o cavaleiro ousado, o seu querido D. Diego, no seu cavalo branco em que f\u00f4ra pelejar contra os mouros.
\nDos cerros \u00edngremes, t\u00e3o altos que quase o c\u00e9u se tocava com a m\u00e3o, a linda princesa espraiava o olhar na dist\u00e2ncia infinda, mas, do seu cavaleiro ausente, n\u00e3o divisava nada. Triste, muito triste, mais triste que a noite, clamava em alta voz:
\n\u2013 Mom-Diego! Mom-Diego! porque n\u00e3o vens? S\u00f3 as rochas negras repercutiam o eco:
\n\u2013 Mom-Diego! Mom-Diego! … Assim passaram os dias, assim correram as noites de infind\u00e1vel ang\u00fastia durante os quais os olhos da princezinha eram duas fontes de l\u00e1grimas de \u00e1gua pura a correr…
\n\u00c1gua tanta seus olhos derramaram, que ela foi correndo serra a baixo…
\nOs pastores e as gentes da serra ouviram ainda, durante muito tempo, o eco das cavernas repetindo as exclama\u00e7\u00f5es da princesa que ali morreu de pena: \u2013 Mom-Diego Mom-Diego!…
\nE, por isso, deram o nome ao rio que ali se formou das l\u00e1grimas da princezinha e que \u00e9, nem mais nem menos, que o nosso Mondego.
\nE \u00e0 Serra alta que, at\u00e9 ent\u00e3o, se chamava Montes Herm\u00ednios, deram o nome da formosa Estrela, t\u00e3o linda, esbelta e formosa como as estrelas do c\u00e9u!…
\nExtra\u00edda da Monografia da Vila de Seia de P. Jos\u00e9 Quelhas Bigotte[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Festividades fixas e actividades s\u00f3cio-econ\u00f3micas”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Anualmente v\u00e1rias s\u00e3o as festividades\/actividades do Concelho de Manteigas, concretamente:
\n▪ as Comemora\u00e7\u00f5es do Feriado Municipal, no dia 4 de Mar\u00e7o;
\n▪ o Mercado, com exposi\u00e7\u00e3o de produtos regionais, no 2.o S\u00e1bado de cada m\u00eas;
\n▪ a Mostra de Actividades e Feira de Artesanato (Expo Estrela), tendo lugar, no dia do Carnaval, a prova do Queijo da Serra da Estrela e um desfile Carnavalesco.
\nRealizam-se ainda festividades espec\u00edficas de cada freguesia do Concelho, nomeadamente,<\/p>\n

Sameiro<\/b>
\nAs festas que se comemoram s\u00e3o a de Santa Euf\u00e9mia, no 3.o fim-de-semana de Setembro, de Beato Nuno, 2.o fim-de-semana de Agosto e de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o, no dia 24 de Junho ou no
\nfim-de-semana mais pr\u00f3ximo.<\/p>\n

Santa Maria<\/b>
\nComemoram-se as festas e romarias de S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, a 10 de Agosto, do Senhor do Calv\u00e1rio, no 3.o Domingo de Agosto, de S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o, no 4.o Domingo de Outubro e os Santos Populares.<\/p>\n

S. Pedro<\/b>
\nDas Festas e Romarias, celebram-se nesta freguesia a festa da Nossa Senhora da Gra\u00e7a, a
\n8 de Dezembro; Santo Ant\u00f3nio, a 13 de Junho; Senhora dos Verdes, no 3.o Domingo de Setembro; e, S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o, no 2.o Domingo de Outubro.<\/p>\n

Vale de Amoreira<\/b>
\nA festa da Nossa Senhora da Anuncia\u00e7\u00e3o celebra-se no 2.o Domingo de Agosto.<\/p>\n

A C\u00e2mara Municipal de Manteigas promove anualmente, no fim-de-semana de Carnaval, a Mostra de Actividades e Feira de Artesanato (Expo Estrela), que re\u00fane cerca de
\n70 expositores, repartidos por Entidades, Associa\u00e7\u00f5es, Artesanato, Com\u00e9rcio, Produtos Regionais, Ind\u00fastria e Restaura\u00e7\u00e3o.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″]

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