Baião is a county rich in history, folk culture, gastronomy and wines, but it is also a region of writers. Over the years, men of letters were born in Baião, other made this county their adoptive home, as the pureness and the authenticity of the people won over their heart, but also influenced their literary approach, making Baião the stage of several plots. From Soeiro to Eça, passing by the Viscount of Via Moura and Camilo Castelo Branco, the natural and cultural elements of Baião are captured in the classics of literature, representing Baião as one of the most precious green pearls of Portugal.
I remember the meticulous order in which everything that was of my Father walked! [...] on the high worktable were the inkwell, three weighing bugs, the wipers, the crockery and the little pot with a flower.
Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes was born on April 14, 1909 in the parish of Gestaçô, in Baião. He was the son of the rural proprietors Alexandre Pereira Gomes and Celestina Soeiro Pereira Gomes, being one of the six children of the couple. Subjects ...
António Mota was born in Vilarelho, Ovil, municipality of Baião. Professor of Basic Education, published in 1979 his first children's book, "The Village of Flowers", not ceasing to write. His stories, many of them with history, ...
Although better known as Visconde de Vila Moura, his full name was Bento de Oliveira Cardoso and Castro Guedes de Carvalho Lobo, having been born in the House of Eira, place of Vila Moura, parish of Grilo, municipality of Baião, where ...
Camilo Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon on March 13, 1825 and died in São Miguel de Seide on June 1, 1890. Son of Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, was an orphan mother at two years old and father at ten; was then living ...
Agustina Bessa-Luís is a Portuguese writer, born in Vila Meã, city of Amarante. With collaboration dispersed by many journals, it is today considered one of the most important voices in the contemporary Portuguese novel. Yours...
António Alves Redol was born in Vila Franca de Xira on December 29, 1911. Alves Redol began to publish his texts long before publishing books, having ...
