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Frank Fichtmüller In 1971 it was not just an entire town that sank. At the bottom of the waters of the Homem River, in northern Portugal, there are not only granite walls and fields that were once green and cultivated. There are submerged memories of a people who lived in community and shared everything. Today, its former neighbors share the feeling of sadness at no longer having their Vilarinho da Furna . On January 1, 1971, snowflakes fell gently on the roofs of this town an hour from Aceredo , the Galician town submerged 21 years later, in 1992. Manuel Antunes remembers that day well. And, if he didn't remember it, he would always have the hundreds of photographic records that he has of the last days he spent in Vilarinho da Furna. Aceredo, the town that appears and disappears with the drought Vilarinho da Furna Neighbors of Vilarinho da Furna leave the town.
Manuel Antunes Manuel Antunes, university professor and retired sociologist, was born and raised in that small town of Campo do Gerês , located in the extreme northeast of the municipality of Terras de Bouro . At the age of 12 he went to study in Viana do Castelo . However, he continued to visit the town whenever he could, especially during the Cell Phone Number List Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. That first day of 1971, Manuel Antunes, about 20 years old and already living and studying Philosophy in Lisbon, took advantage of the Christmas holidays to visit an aunt who still lived there and say goodbye to the town before it was lost forever in the waters. of the reservoir. Vilarinho da Furna Construction of the Vilarinho das Furnas dam. By Manuel Antunes "I saw the dismantling of the houses, I took some photographs, I also brought some objects for the museum and we left on the 2nd. We were the last two people to leave there on January 2, 1971," he said in an interview with EscapadaRural .
The Vilarinho das Furnas dam would eventually begin operating in February 1971, but it was not officially inaugurated until May 21 of the following year. “A museum to evoke a submerged town” Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna. Source: Terras de Bouro City Council Manuel Antunes, who is now 71 years old, is one of the greatest guardians of the memory of Vilarinho da Furna , even before the dam was built. “When it was decided to build the dam, in 1967, I launched the idea of creating the Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna ”, he remembers. An idea that he describes as “delusional”, but that today allows us not to forget the extinct community village.
Manuel Antunes Manuel Antunes, university professor and retired sociologist, was born and raised in that small town of Campo do Gerês , located in the extreme northeast of the municipality of Terras de Bouro . At the age of 12 he went to study in Viana do Castelo . However, he continued to visit the town whenever he could, especially during the Cell Phone Number List Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. That first day of 1971, Manuel Antunes, about 20 years old and already living and studying Philosophy in Lisbon, took advantage of the Christmas holidays to visit an aunt who still lived there and say goodbye to the town before it was lost forever in the waters. of the reservoir. Vilarinho da Furna Construction of the Vilarinho das Furnas dam. By Manuel Antunes "I saw the dismantling of the houses, I took some photographs, I also brought some objects for the museum and we left on the 2nd. We were the last two people to leave there on January 2, 1971," he said in an interview with EscapadaRural .
The Vilarinho das Furnas dam would eventually begin operating in February 1971, but it was not officially inaugurated until May 21 of the following year. “A museum to evoke a submerged town” Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna. Source: Terras de Bouro City Council Manuel Antunes, who is now 71 years old, is one of the greatest guardians of the memory of Vilarinho da Furna , even before the dam was built. “When it was decided to build the dam, in 1967, I launched the idea of creating the Ethnographic Museum of Vilarinho da Furna ”, he remembers. An idea that he describes as “delusional”, but that today allows us not to forget the extinct community village.