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Towns that are known for one kind of pot, and what the sources can and cannot tell us about them.
- 01 The rooster that crowed, and the potters who made Barcelos famousA legend of a hanged pilgrim, a craft that began in the corners of the kiln, and a town that is still trying to protect its name.
- 02 The figures that nearly stopped being madeFor thirteen years in the 20th century nobody in Estremoz made the clay figures now on UNESCO’s list. How they came back, and how they are made.
- 03 Clay towns of the Alentejo, and what each page can proveQuartz pressed into clay in Nisa, a pottery school from 1893 in Viana, a village the council says has over twenty workshops. What municipal and UNESCO pages say about each, and where they stop.
