Culatra, an Island with People Inside
No. 48 SEPTEMBER 2020
The world is increasingly blurred but on the island of Culatra, the most southerly inhabited point in mainland Portugal, there is a fishing community that endures. Humour. Irreverence. Flexibility. Challenging authority. Survival instinct. Bulletproof solidarity. It is not by chance that these characteristics come together in the same community. From a place almost unknown to tourism, from an island left abandoned to the birthplace of an ecological project selected by the European Union, Culatra, one of the Algarve’s barrier islands in the Ria Formosa Reserve, has experienced significant and profound transformations in recent years.
This book aims to be a portrait of this island, its history, the people who inhabit it today and its relationship with the nature on which they depend. This is a rare portrait of the spirit of a place, between authenticity and progress.
The world is increasingly blurred but on the island of Culatra, the most southerly inhabited point in mainland Portugal, there is a fishing community that endures. Humour. Irreverence. Flexibility. Challenging authority. Survival instinct. Bulletproof solidarity. It is not by chance that these characteristics come together in the same community. From a place almost unknown to tourism, from an island left abandoned to the birthplace of an ecological project selected by the European Union, Culatra, one of the Algarve’s barrier islands in the Ria Formosa Reserve, has experienced significant and profound transformations in recent years.
This book aims to be a portrait of this island, its history, the people who inhabit it today and its relationship with the nature on which they depend. This is a rare portrait of the spirit of a place, between authenticity and progress.
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Dimensions
6.5 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9004-15-3
Book available only in Portuguese
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