Casa do Lavrador is a rural and ethnographic museum that integrates the Cultural and Recreational Association of Santa Cruz do Douro. Built in honor of Mr. Augusto Gomes dos Santos, Honorary President of the Portuguese Folklore Federation, the House of the Labrador was inaugurated on June 26, 1999, by its Exa. the Lord […]

If the first sites of settlement occupied during the 5th millennium BC are still sparse remains, the settlements of the 2nd and 1st millenium already show an intense occupation of the territory, with distinct strategies, whose populations already worked the bronze and maintained contacts with regions more remote from the Iberian Peninsula, mirrored in some objects at [...]

Since the beginning of the twelfth century, the monastery’s history is closely tied to the production and commercialization of wine. From the medieval ages onwards, the wine was sent to the city of Oporto becoming part of the Douro river trade-routes.