Barons of Trovisqueira's woolen mill, at Riba d'Ave: first layer on a oblivion stratigraphy

Mário Bruno Pastor, Eduarda Vieira, Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz

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Abstract

Riba d'Ave is a small town in Portuguese NW, located at the center of the industrial textile explosion that shaped and redefined the Ave Valley. It is currently crossing a painful process of deindustrialization. The major factory in the region, Sampaio, Ferreira e Cia Lda, closed in 2005, leaving the landscape and the community in a state of disintegration. The memory and structures of this company, founded in 1896, remain very present in the landscape and in the collective imagination. However, a first factory installed there in 1881 by the Baron of Trovisqueira and his wife, which was in fact the basis of the whole process, seems nowadays, a little overlooked and poorly studied, both from the historiographic and industrial heritage point of view. This paper intends to recover part of the memory of this first inaugural factory, and articulate it with what still exists today in the landscape.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntangibility Matters
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference on the values of tangible heritage: IMaTTe 2017 Proceedings
EditorsMarluci Menezes, Dória Rodrigues Costa, José Delgado Rodrigues
Place of PublicationLisboa
PublisherLaboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Pages97-105
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789724922959
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2017
EventIntangibility Matters: International Conference on the values of tangible heritage - LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisboa, Portugal
Duration: 29 May 201730 May 2017
http://imatte2017.lnec.pt/

Conference

ConferenceIntangibility Matters
Abbreviated titleIMaTTe 2017
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisboa
Period29/05/1730/05/17
Internet address

Keywords

  • Deindustrialization
  • Woolen factory
  • Industrial heritage
  • Community memory

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