"TABUAÇO UM PASSADO PRESENTE"

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”Barge, fecuns queen,
Of fine wine kings;
Thick Vine robe
Fills wine-presses and barrels”
Tabuaço marble

Desejosa is placed in an extreme left of the Council. Belongs to the
parish area the Barge stop on the enigmatic St. Peter of the Waters
Monastery and must have been part of its 24 tributaries couples.

Desejosa lives upon agriculture, being wine its first importance, up most treated wine or generous A and B class or higher classified. The good wine appraiser will be delighted visiting Desejosa and taste treated wine.

There had been a people’s oven in Desejosa which recalls the people the communitarian life. There have been two presses that used ox to press the olives. Desejosa has its commentary life encouraged by the actual president of the board that develops sport and cultural activities. It also produced olive-oil, potatoes, rye and wheat cereals.

In the village there are one shoeing smith and two apiculturists. Who visits Desejosa has the opportunity to get beck home with a proof of pure honey.

There are still in Desejosa lace maker - with their worldwide known laces, respected and used as garment by the most traditional families.

According to the tradition, the original settlement place of the village would have been elsewhere, where there came some fugitive nuns, which motives run away. The tradition says that the ant’s nest were so many, attacking mostly the children’s sexes, that dwellers had to move away to the present place.

Desejosa´s inhabitants are warm and really know how to take in. We were welcome with a Chanfana that, originally, is part of the coast area gastronomy. The Stew Club would be proud by the efforts Desejosa has been making to recapture such a charming tradition of the Portuguese gastronomy.

From up hill (29 km) begins the way down, one fills big by feeling like ruling the world, or little for so fragile face the superior majesty of the mountain that guide the rivers, draw the ribbons of the roads and establish the village’s places.		That is the sensation on has looking at Chavães Mountain upon the Sunset, from where untie the huge scarps of Fradinho close to Tabuaço, that even seams impossible do any attempt to cross.
	On 29,5 km, where rests a cemetery, a little road can take whoever to the tiny village of Balsa with its little chapel that hardly gets filled at Sunday masses.
On the way to Desejosa, already seen far apart, stands on the left the Saint Barbara Chapel, from 1759, in which backyard is easy to find love couples wooing at Summer evenings.		The village looks like a Nativity scene along the side hill.The Mother Church keeps a modern air. Has St. Anthony as patron to whom parties are thrown in January.
It´s easy to find older people sitting in the shadow. It’s easy too to chat with them. They talk about bread and wine, of parties and work, of the longtime visits to the village on market days on bad roads they cross the Tavora through a wooden bridge. *The Famous Laces from Desejosa*

A curiosity: There is a cemetery between the two villages, and the elderly say the two parishes fought to use the place to bury their deaths. One day, the Fight was so big that they decided to separate the corpses and place the deceased with their heads facing their village. We do not know for sure how the burial and unburial was performed and if there has been a new funeral procession, but the fact is tradition remains. ARCHEOLOGY Dados Bibliográficos: Tabuaço - Um Passado Presente ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Station name: Dólmen 1 de S. Domingos. Station type: Dólmen. Epoch: Neolítico/Calcolítico. Localization: Lugar – – Monte de S. Domingos; Place name – Monte de S. Domingos. Geographic coordinate: 41º 01' 45" Lat. N.; 01º 36' 32" Long. E. Lx.; 705 m Alt.; C.M.P. 1:25.000, pg. 128, S. João da Pesqueira, 2nd edition,1986.