RURAL HERITAGE
Recovery and conservation
What people build and transmit from generation to generation is intrinsically linked to the arts and crafts, as constructions are artifacts of history that mark a territory, its culture and its people. This is what is important to safeguard and keep alive. And this is exactly one of Palombar's missions: to preserve the constructed rural heritage and traditional construction techniques, ensuring the conservation of resources and transmission of knowledge, through a pedagogical and cooperative approach that results in the enrichment of individuals and energization of the rural world.
TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE:
Recovery of built rural heritage
Dovecotes, windmills, shanties, stone walls ... These are some of the elements that integrate rural architectural heritage of the Trás-os-Montes region and that, in addition to being built to serve the population needs, are also a haven for wildlife, thus contributing to the conservation and promotion of biodiversity. They are, therefore, icons of the rural world of high cultural, social, natural and ecological value that we want to recover and preserve.
Palombar promotes the recovery of traditional rural heritage constructions within our scope of actions, through projects which we partner or even as part of national and international volunteer initiatives. The organization has already recovered hundreds of traditional dovecotes, several meters of stone walls, a forge, a mill and a community oven throughout the region, almost always with volunteering or training.
Palombar promotes the recovery of traditional rural heritage constructions within our scope of actions, through projects which we partner or even as part of national and international volunteer initiatives. The organization has already recovered hundreds of traditional dovecotes, several meters of stone walls, a forge, a mill and a community oven throughout the region, almost always with volunteering or training.
TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
Traditional construction techniques are the cornerstone of traditional constructed heritage and have been developed over centuries of experimentation and improvement. This unique heritage took shape in accordance with the surrounding natural environment and offers ecological solutions for the construction sector, currently marked by the use of synthetic and polluting materials, as well as by waste, which we wish to contest.
At present, there are also few repositories of this knowledge, so it is urgent to preserve and transmit the art of these techniques.
Palombar works with the use of stone (shale or granite) to build walls or small constructions, the use of wood for roofs, devices and furniture, preparation of land for the construction of adobe, mud, tile, tile or renders, the use of lime to make mortars, plasters or paintings and, finally, iron forging.
At present, there are also few repositories of this knowledge, so it is urgent to preserve and transmit the art of these techniques.
Palombar works with the use of stone (shale or granite) to build walls or small constructions, the use of wood for roofs, devices and furniture, preparation of land for the construction of adobe, mud, tile, tile or renders, the use of lime to make mortars, plasters or paintings and, finally, iron forging.
COLLECTION AND TRAINING
Our organization also collects traditional construction techniques from the Northeast Transmontano and other parts of the world and transmits this knowledge through workshops, training actions and thematic meetings that aim to disseminate and preserve these techniques. Increasing the knowledge of these construction methods and imparting their use is essential to preserve constructed heritage, based on generational transmission of knowledge associated with arts and crafts.
ARCHEOLOGY
Palombar has also developed in the area of archeology and collaborated with the Research Project at Castro de São João das Arribas - Aldeia Nova (Miranda do Douro), with the aim of increasing knowledge about predecessor traditional building techniques in the Transmontano Northeast region as well as to trace their historical evolution.
This is an archaeological research project that started in 2016 and which, through low-impact operations, such as field surveys, aims to bring to light new data on Romanization and human occupation in the territory of the Mirandese Plateau. Within the scope of this Project, excavations and archaeological studies are carried out at Castro de São João das Arribas. The Project is coordinated by a team of archaeologists - Mónica Salgado and Pedro Pereira - in partnership with Palombar, the French association Rempart, the Parish Council of Miranda do Douro and the Municipality of Miranda do Douro. Our organization considers this Project a great contribution to the archaeological study and knowledge about the Mirandese Plateau and wants to be an active and intervening part in this area of knowledge.
This is an archaeological research project that started in 2016 and which, through low-impact operations, such as field surveys, aims to bring to light new data on Romanization and human occupation in the territory of the Mirandese Plateau. Within the scope of this Project, excavations and archaeological studies are carried out at Castro de São João das Arribas. The Project is coordinated by a team of archaeologists - Mónica Salgado and Pedro Pereira - in partnership with Palombar, the French association Rempart, the Parish Council of Miranda do Douro and the Municipality of Miranda do Douro. Our organization considers this Project a great contribution to the archaeological study and knowledge about the Mirandese Plateau and wants to be an active and intervening part in this area of knowledge.
