Resulting from an old auriferous mining exploitation from the Roman era, about 1900 years old, the lagoons of Batocas, constitute today an extraordinary ecological niche, with particular importance for the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis).
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Tiago Rodrigues
Born in Lisbon, he left the capital for a village in Barroso, where he has developed projects with various local institutions. He is a graphic designer and art editor at UMinho Editora. In 2017, he founded Terra Callaeci, a project dedicated to the promotion of the cultural landscape of Trás-os-Montes, as a construction of the people who inhabited (and inhabit) it.