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ANTERO DE ALDA BEIRAS PROVINCE
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song intro APANHA A SAIA (trad.) Vouzela, 1981 |
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Mounteneering villages in the
Beiras'
province
ROMANCE OF THE RICH MAN
«Was an old rich man twice married twice widowed. Married a poor woman he took great pride ...»
THROUGH THE PATHS WHICH KILLED THE LIVING ONE... There was a time when there weren´t any graveyard in the small village of Pena, in the S. Pedro do Sul council, Viseu district. Anyone who died there, must be buried in Covas do Rio (just below Covas do Monte), to where the coffin had to be taken, whether people carried it or it was carried in a litter through a uphill path. People say that, one ill-fated day, in one of this trips one of the men who carried the coffin slipped and the coffin fell on top of him… So the frightful bypath was forever known as “the dead´s path that killed the living”. Truth or just a folk-tale, the truth is that the story reflects perfectly the isolation that even nowadays people live in small villages. Villages in the majestic summits of Arada, S. Macário, Caramulo and Estrela Mountain range…
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