The Douro Extension of the City Museum, formerly known as the Port Wine Museum, is now extending its programme to observation of the Douro in detail. The Douro river that overflows its banks, also gave its name to a region. It\u2019s about 100km – between Barca d’Alva on the Spanish border, and Barqueiros almost reaching Porto – where the Douro is water and soil. Along its long course [cerca de 900km] here is where Douro becomes the name of a unique encounter between water, stones, plants, animals and people, the first and last encounter of this kind.<\/p>\n
A terroir<\/em> made by hand. The terraces did not exist, it was necessary to break the cliffs, undo the schist stones of the tomb cliffs that rose on the banks most exposed to the sun. Make the climate. The combination of air, fire, earth and water attains an equilibrium that engenders a unique form of plant life, whose fermentation converts into the noble and international Port Wine.<\/p>\n First and foremost, this exhibition is a performance-based experience that can be understood as a composition; an exhibition of fixed duration which blends together ancient and contemporary sounds, spoken testimonies, voices from the beyond and visions of the past that are projected onto the present. In its airborne version, the exhibition is a soundscape. 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\nOf course, strictly speaking, this is not just about designing and putting together an exhibition about the Douro – it\u2019s about paying tribute to the gardeners of the Earth.
\nNuno Faria and Eglantina Monteiro<\/p>\n