- Analysis and mapping of the historical data -

This task is designed to reference the information offered by the most ancient historical documents available for the territory of Braga, with a view to recover elements that allow us to characterize the occupation of the territory and the rural landscape of the city to most remote periods, using a regressive analysis.

All the physical elements of the landscape reported by the written documentation (sites, structures, buildings, landmarks, roads, vegetation, watercourses and ditches) will be worked consistently with a view to its further cartography. We will try to identify records that will allow us to better understanding the articulation between the city and the countryside and to understand its organization. Based on this analysis we will seek to verify in what way the medieval properties does use or not oldest boundaries, namely those which may correspond to the alignments of the Roman cadastre. Based upon the cartography of the high medieval farms, villas and monasteries we will seek to understand potential events of physical continuum of the Roman farming units or its replacement by other exploitation sites.

The documentary basis to be used in this task is composed by the cartulary organized by the Diocese of Braga, between the XII and XIII centuries, where it’s ecclesiastic and seigniorial rights were registered since the former suede organization in the VI century.