Life in Portugal: coastal villages in a photo from the middle of the last century

The Gulbenkian Art Library in Lisbon has an archive of old photographs, among which you can find these beautiful pictures. They illustrate the peaceful life in coastal Portuguese towns, where people have long been engaged in fishing. In this region, fishing has fed people since the time of the Roman Empire. In some places, archaeologists have discovered the remains of enterprises and warehouses where they processed and stored fish thousands of years ago. In addition, garum was produced here - fish sauce, which was very much appreciated by the inhabitants of the entire empire.

70 years ago, in many towns, life continued to go in the same direction as several centuries earlier. Fishermen went out to sea in their boats - saveiro (saveiro), and caught mackerel and horse mackerel. We invite you to purchase old pictures on Violity, which will tell about life in other countries and in other times.