BOBBIN LACE & BERLENGAS
“Elected long time ago as the main location for diving with a hard hat in the Portuguese coast, the Berlengas’
waters hide everything the human imagination can create.”
BOBBIN LACE “Onde há rede , tem renda” (Fishermen’s wives)
Due to the lack of fish & crops Raise family income
Agile embroiderers (decided to use their skills to start doing Bobbin Lace)
Hard to explain
BOBBIN LACE - History Milan – France (Louis XIV)
Only in the 16 century B.L. appeared in Portugal
Four important centers:
Vila do Conde, Peniche, Lagos, Olhão
Later – Setúbal & Sesimbra
1887 Creation of D. Maria Pia Industrial Drawing School (Later Josefa de óbidos industrial embroidery school) = the lace of peniche reached the highest level of perfection
BOBBIN LACE - Curiosities With industrialization, bobbin lace in peniche started decreasing.
Luckily, with the appearance of several facilities, the art is now safe
Curisosities:
Girls learn to embroid with 8 or 9 bobbins but with time they can reach as much as 64
Portuguese women took the activity to brazil where it is called “rendas de praia”
Peniche
Sta Catarina, Brazil
BERLENGAS Location: 12km from
the Peniche port
1500 meters long and 800 meters wide
with a perimeter of 4000 meters
reaches 88 meters Composed by three
islets
Berlenga/Estelas/
Farilhões-Forcados
Historic Intro Due to its strategic location, the island has seen its
waters anchored by vessels of many time periods
The memory of these vessels is maintained by the many sub-aquatic findings produced in recent years
stone anchors from the Phoenician-Punic eras
stocks of led and amphora anchors of the Roman period
artillery objects (15c)
Historic Intro St. John the Baptist Fortress:
Odered by John IV in 1651
Concluded in 1656
Built to prevent the island’s occupation by the North African corsairs
Survived until June 1666, when the most remarkable war episode of its history took place (Spanish attack)
Historic Intro Duke of Braganza’s
Lighthouse:
Built in 1841, 29m high,
two lighthouse keepers 24/7
Geology
The Berlenga granite corresponds to a unique geological type in the European continent
Unlike the coast of Peniche, formed by sedimentary rocks, the archipelago of Berlengas is mainly formed by magma and metamorphic rocks,
just like the highly deformed
red granite, gneiss, and shale –
can prove
Natural Reserve (NCI) Region of great interest for botanical specialists with
several endemic species and species of limited distribution
A nesting spot for some species of ocean birds and a passing point for several migratory species
A Maritime Reserve of great wild life richness
Natural Reserve (NCI) Why?
Biological value of the maritime surrounding area
Botanic interest
Fauna (Maritime Birds)
Archeological
Sub-aquatic patrimony
Natural Reserve (NCI) Birds:
Nesting species- European shag
Cory Shearwater
Guillemot
Other birds - Lesser black-backed gulls
Yellow legged gulls (Plague)
Natural Reserve (NCI)
Reptiles:
Bocage’s wall lizards
Jewelled lizard
Natural Reserve (NCI) Mammals:
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Black rat (Rattus rattus)
Natural Reserve (NCI) Flora
Creeper vegetation, composed of herbaceous and shrubby plants
Endemic species:
Armeria berlengensis
Herniaria berlengiana
Carpobrotus edulis
Cornish Tree
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