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The Tagus River fishing grounds in Ortiga are rare examples of a unique landscape architecture resulting from the centuries-old relationship with the river in this fishing village in the municipality of Mação, resulting from ingenious construction techniques with the schist that surrounds the banks of the Tagus in this area. Being a secular heritage, its study, the structures and all the immaterial heritage associated, must continue in a rigorous way, thus contributing to its safeguard and conservation, but also to its valorisation and open-air musealization.

Returning to the community a valuable heritage for the study of its riverside and fishing identity. The enhancement of this heritage is the path to its sustainability.

A heritage study will highlight its architectural, archaeological, ethnographic, didactic, ecological and aesthetic value.

This study, in turn, will have to integrate the set of associated cultural dynamics: involving in them both the material aspects, such as the construction techniques of fishing boats, "picaretos", but also the fishing techniques in Ortiga, as well as the immaterial aspects such as the typical gastronomy of this town linked to the intense fishing in the Tagus River, the saying and talking about the population referring to the Tagus, personal hygiene ha(...)

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