Museu do Canteiro e Centro Cultural de Alcains

The permanent exhibition "the Labor of the construction site" develops along a route which follows the stages of intervention on the stone for the production of stonework. Are the older and traditional utensils used by stonemasons in the course of successive operations and also the innovations that have been, leading to its abandonment and replacement by machinery. The images presented in this course documenting practices and techniques that lead to production of stonework and realize the fundamental traits of the evolution of activity in Portugal petraea. The most significant innovations are those that came to emblematizar the industry itself petraea there confined to use of human and animal energy. Are still set out issues that today are as urgent in conceiving the development of man's relationship with the touchstone issues that in this pose problems regarding the future. For more detailed information about this and other mining and geological points of interest in Portugal, visit < a href = http:\/\/www.roteirodeminas.pt target = "_blank" > www.roteirodeminas.pt <\/a>.