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Sabugueiro, Seia, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Largo do Jardim, Sousel, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Avenue D. José Alves Correia da Silva, Fátima, Ourém, Portugal We started on May 7, 2012, a team of four calceteiros, the work of cobblestone paving in one of the busiest avenues in the town of Fatima. This reclassification is part of the "Action Programme for Urban Regeneration of Fatima", Roc2c mission, portuguese stone paving. The parking areas and car traffic are composed of dark gray granite, with dimensions 10x20x10cm. The settlement is made in the row, like herringbone, alternating the direction of the same in the parking lot and the track. The white limestone, with dimensions 10x10x10cm, is used to delimit the ditch line and the axis of the highway as marking. On the 1st day of work, the rain caused us some trouble, but despite this, the work took place naturally. After defining the dimensions and alignments, paving began. In the following days, and gradually, the sun was present, allowing our team of calceteiros a good work rate, with an average of 200...

Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Belém, Lisboa, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Avenida Liberdade, Lisboa, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Rua Direita, Arrimal, Porto Mós, Portugal Conta a lenda que a pá de padeira da Sra. Brites de Almeida, mais conhecida como a padeira de Aljubarrota se encontra na cave secreta da Igreja de Santo António no Arrimal. A lenda contada pelos habitantes desta localidade remota – nos para o final da vida da Sra. Brites de Almeida. Ela, no limiar da sua vida, ofereceu a sua pá de padeira a um jovem navegador do Arrimal que iria começar uma viagem marítima pelo o oriente.  Após meses de viagem por mar desconhecido e sem terra à vista, uma tempestade aproximou – se da embarcação, fazendo o capitão perder o controlo do barco e consequentemente perder o controlo da sua tripulação. O jovem navegador do Arrimal retrata o acontecimento: “O silêncio caiu dos céus, um brilho de um farol gigante cegou – nos e a mão de Deus empurrou – nos para uma ilha vazia. Não percebo muito bem porque Deus nos fez tal coisa. Acordei em uma ilha deserta. Estava sozinho com uma pá de padeira.”...

Alameda um de Março, Tomar, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Fotos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Praça do Município, Covilhã, Portugal Covilhã is a visual city, it must be seen to be understood with the eyes that see the letters on the stones.        But nothing is new on the stones, just a repeated alphabet by the same order with shapes that everyone knows but no one can write it or read it. Covilha is an invisible city by the falling snow, where you can write the voices of the ground and see the invisible with open eyes. Covilhã is a city where every stone is a poem and every poem is visual.    Text: Guilherme Marques Barbosa Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Baleal, Peniche, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Av. Coudelaria de Alter, Alter do Chão, Portugal        “Fram dæg, Alter do Chão behófede æt sé ríce of Portus Cale” said D. Afonso II, The Fat , The Crass , and The King of Portugal after another winning battle in the name of God. The event occurred on 1216.             When the Portuguese knights arrived, in a small hill, at the middle of the village, they found a stone horse. Everyone wanted to ride the stone horse but no one could. It didn’t see, it didn’t whinny, it didn’t move. The stone horse was motionless, rooted to the floor, made by unbreakable stone.             “Àngilde Heofonweard must béo unbræce!” said a D. Afonso II, The Fat , The Crass , and The King of Portugal.             The Portuguese knights blinded by the king words tried to demolish with their swords the s...

Avenue Diogo Leite, Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

At the São Filipe Nery Street you might see the small luxury hotel Infante Sagres, a symbol of the modernist architecture in Portugal. You might see the Lello & Irmão bookstore, one of the finest bookstore in the world. You might see the Oporto ex libris the Clérigos Tower. But at the São Filipe Nery Street you will always see and you will always walk under a typical Portuguese symbol: the "Calçada Portuguesa".  Rua de São Filipe de Nery, Oporto, Portugal   Rua das Carmelitas, Oporto, Portugal Text: Guilherme Marques Barbosa Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Rua do Cabido, Braga Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Nazaré beach, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c