Characterization of the Natural Environment to Support the Construction of the Infrastructures Necessary for the Regeneration of Aldeia da Pena in São Pedro do Sul (Portugal) for Ecotourism Spaces
| Autor: | Luis M. Ferreira Gomes, Luís Andrade Pais, Paulo Carvalho, Sara Lopes Fernandes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 960:042008 |
| ISSN: | 1757-899X 1757-8981 |
| Popis: | Portugal is witnessing a phenomenon of depopulation of the rural areas in the interior of the country, with the tendency of almost total abandonment of some small villages. The situation of Aldeia da Pena in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul, embedded in a mountainous area, which has led to this abandonment, already begun many years ago, has preserved its vernacular architecture and is worth recovering and converting to accommodation and leisure spaces in order to support new segments of tourism and in particular Ecotourism and Geotourism, which are emerging in the region. Thus, there is a tendency for these places to be recovered and to change functions since they once served the population that depended on subsistence agriculture. The new function to be viable requires more water than in the past, both for human consumption and for other activities, namely leisure and recreational activities, which currently value and help to make the tourism sector economically viable. Thus, with the intention of an effective recovery of the Aldeia da Pena, in order to contribute to the implementation of the various infrastructures appropriate to the modern society, in the present work, after a brief historical framework, the geomorphological, geological and hydrogeological aspects are presented with emphasis on the lithologies that occur there in order to favor the rehabilitation of the houses essentially in schist stone, and the water potentially available, either underground or of superficial origin. Finally, the main aspects of the proposed infrastructures are presented, and some final considerations are made. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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