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António Fernandes - Máscaras Transmontanas

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Área Protegida: Parque Natural de Montesinho
Address: 5300-701 Nogueira Bragança
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Telephone: 934939390/
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António Fernandes - Máscaras Transmontanas

Transmontanas masks - wooden masks connected to the rituals of the “Festas dos Rapazes” / “Caretos”. In these rituals they farewell to winter and welcome the spring. It symbolize pagan religious rituals and as natural as the passage of time and the renewal of the seasons or even the passage of the teen age towards adulthood

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