If each of you only speaks one language to your children, and then they learn Portuguese in school, they will easily have 3 languages. My friend's son spoke 3 languages by the time he was 3 because his parents and nanny only spoke one language to him. Thank you for the tour!
Hi Maarten, Lea and Puck - Thank you for this tour, beautiful little town with such rich history. Nice to see the family taking time together and enjoying other parts of Portugal from the daily routine. Blessings Always.
Emigrating to America at a very young age, I am painfully lacking in knowledge of Portuguese history. Thank you so much for showing us around your locale and expanding those limitations.
Enjoying touring Portugal in your channel. I was lucky enough to make it to tour Spain. God willing, one day I will tour Portugal. Watching all the way from South Africa.
Wow! So much to get to know! Thank you Maarten for the history! I’ll be definitely have to read more about it and visit! Puck stole the video! She is getting so big and her hair is growing beautifully! I loved the scene she is holding her hat under her arm, so responsible, in order not to loose it! Thank you for the video! Looking forward to next videos, fall is arriving!
Great, last October I was there too and was breathing in the history, some Germans even had been there... Actually I would like to visit you at your land on a weekend.
What a lovely village . You make a good tour guide Maarten. I have only been to Portugal once for a holiday in Octber to Playa da Rocha we visited a few places in the area but nothing as beautiful as that. Looking forward to more of the same and your homestead blogs. 😘
Glad to see you love your new home! And are not all work and NO play! The little one walking here and there exploring so cute ! Enjoy your week thanks for sharing!😄🤓🤓🤓
thank you marteen--(i hope i spelled your name correct-)-i approve of what you and laya are doing with your lives--and your daughter i enjoy--my grandchildren live in new mexio and colorado u.s. i live in indiana--maybe you could go to your village where you get your supplies--that would be interesting----thank you---deatra
Thank you never heard of it before but on my next time in Portugal that is happen in two weeks I have to find some spare time and wonder to Monsanto region cheers.
The Romans actually used a type of concrete to make nice square blocks for construction. It was tougher and more long-lasting than modern concrete. Wikipedia has a nice description of the process.
I am aware of its use but in this area they would have mainly relied on local stones as they are abundantly available. If you are interested in reading more about roman building materials and methods I would suggest taking a look at this paper. tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1909&context=all_theses
That old tree could well be more than 300 Years. Very near you could see an old "Azinheira(Quercus rotundifolia)" aldeiashistoricasdeportugal.com/local/azinheira-grande/
I think they are much older than 300 years, probably closer to 1000. There were so many big old trees there, amazing to see. We walked passed this specific one on our way to the bridge it was very pretty as well.
The following link indicates that the Church of Santa Maria was built in the 4th or 5th century. The Swabians came to the region in 409 AD, so I think there's a very good chance that the building was actually constructed by the Christian Hispano-Romans. It has a Roman look to it. The Mohammedans turned this Christian church into a mosque in the 9th century, as was their custom. www.aldeiashistoricasdeportugalblog.pt/en/2019/02/23/se-cathedral-of-the-historic-village-of-idanha-a-velha-a-church-at-the-service-of-two-religions/
You may be right but the confusion for me stems from the sentence in this link where it reads that the construction was built during the Muslim occupation. aldeiashistoricasdeportugal.com/en/local/igreja-de-santa-maria-se-catedral/
@@ourportuguesehomestead You also could be right but the text in your link is a bit confusing; i.e., the church was built in the 4th or 5th century, another nearby, and then this one was built in the 9th century by the Mohammedans. It is the same church in my view and I didn't notice a single feature that looks like Islamic architecture.
@@slanwar What is taught in the Portuguese schools about the origin of the Lusitanians? Wikipedia indicates that they were "an Indo-European people" but later states they were Celts (Celtiberians or Cimbri). Do Portuguese schools teach where the Celts came from? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanians
I am the first to admit that I could have taken more time to do research on the building’s history. I had a whole story about the manor house de marrocos, but that one was completely locked off so this was a backup. I googled some things and that link was one source and I found this one as well so I went for this story. islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pt;Mon01;5;en
0:41 "In the 4th century it had 200,000 people living here", I think someone told Maarten a fib or something was lost in translation. Looking at a map of Roman roads, it was a small easily defended town on the road to the now exhausted but then important gold mines to the Northwest.... www.spainthenandnow.com/spanish-history/roman-roads-in-hispania
I don’t really see the point of looking at the map. Nevertheless it is quite possible that the 200000 number is wrong. I wasn’t sure whether I should include it, but it happened haha. I read it on the dutch Wikipedia page of Idanha-a-Velha. ‘Van het jaar 16 tot aan de vierde eeuw was de stad Romeins en telde, naar wordt beweerd, 200.000 inwoners.’ nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idanha-a-Velha
@@ourportuguesehomestead You sparked my interest in the history of the place, which made me wonder why the Romans built it there in the first place. I supplied the link to the map to try to show how it connected to the rest of 'Hispania'. Lots of Roman towns were strategically placed 1 day's march from the next, placing it in by a fertile bend on a river would have been ideal, the size of bridge also made me wonder how different the local climate was back then, more forests would mean more rain and constant flow. As I said, you sparked my interest, thank you.
When the Romans came to Hispania, they found organized kingdoms and empires, and found strong resistance, hence cities with strong walls and in places easy to defend. The heyday of Idanha was the Visigoth rule, It was a city with Cathedral and bishop. Then the Moors came and destroyed the city. Later, the Christian conquest. Over time, the stones from demolished roman buildings were used for new structures, and eventually Idanha a Nova grew to be a much bigger city. Is a magic place, where layers upon layers of history can be observed.
Thank you so much Stories of jealous kings and queens make a change from today's politics :) And again Puck stole the show, with her careful bridge crossing and stone stepping. 💕💕
🇬🇧 That river bed looks bone dry. Just one small pond. Presume it fills up in the winter. I know very little about Portugal just what I learned from reading a series by Bernard Cornwell about a Rifles Regiment officer called Richard Sharpe in the Peninsular War which was mostly on the borders with Spain. It was also turned into a tv series which gave viewers an opportunity to see some of the countryside. Portugal is UK's oldest ally. Hope it still is now the country is coming out of the EU.
There were a few ponds under the bridge and between the bridge and where I filmed. Some even had some rather large fish in them, but this time of year a lot of rivers stop running especially those downstream from barragems (dams) and this one has a dam upstream as well (barragem de penha garcia).
The "Peninsular War" was the conflict between Portugal, aided by the British, And the Spanish (under French Napoleon rule). Olivença is a territory were the border line is yet disputed beteen portugal and Spain.
Loved the video and seeing this.. I hate to relay anything negative so please take this as constructive criticism...the background dinner music is far from palatable ..zzzzzzzzzz..I had to keep turning my volume on and off in order to keep watching the entire video but to listen to what was said but avoid the music...otherwise great content!
Maarten, your assertion at minute 7:07 is incorrect: It is quite unlikely that the Church of St. Mary would have initially been a mosque. One only needs to take a good look at those arches to see that they are late-Romanesque / early Gothic -- and the abundance of cut-stone with engravings in Roman calligraphy (minutes 8:12 and 8:43) should also testify to the antiquity of the place. That type of medieval building is quite widespread throughout Portugal, and if you were to travel extensively in the northern and central regions you would see it with your own eyes. Portugal is one of the oldest Christian countries in western Europe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Braga Also, do bear in mind that the Moors (Moors, not Arabs -- they were not the same people, even if they shared the same religion!) who came to replace the Suebi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi and the Visigoths as the ruling class were not as widespread as some people are led to believe. And, most certainly, they did not replace the native population -- they simply became the governors of the regions where they establish themselves by the sheer brutality of their methods! I hope this helps with the understanding of our History. All the best.
Thank you for your feedback and encouragement to learn more which I ofcourse intend to do. I have looked at a few sources about the building (some quite confusing) and came across this one islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pt;Mon01;5;en which led me to tell the story the way that I did. It is quite possible that parts have been added to the building in later periods with those romanesque/gothic arches. I by no means wish to dispute the long history of christianity in Portugal, but the influence of other religions and cultures in Portuguese history I find fascinating as well. What I have read so far about the distinction between Moors and Arabs leads me to believe that it is hard if not impossible to make a clear distinction Moors being a catchall term for pretty much all peoples from northern africa as well as european muslims and Arabs being one of those groups. I tried to use the terms that were used in the sources that I read for each story.
@@ourportuguesehomestead Thank you for your prompt reply. I will be looking into the material in those hyperlinks tomorrow, as it is quite late and I have long passed my usual bedtime (and I'm too tired, anyway). I will let you know my thoughts in due course. Good night for now!
@@miguelcoelho3877 It was very common back then to build on top of older structures using stones from old buildings. And the Moors used to turn old temples into mosques, and the Christians would come and rebuild the place as a church. Idanah a Velha is a very good example of that.
@@jmbpinto73 Yes, I know. Every newly-arrived ruler built on top of preexisting structures, often utilizing the building materials laid out by the previous owners of the land.
If each of you only speaks one language to your children, and then they learn Portuguese in school, they will easily have 3 languages. My friend's son spoke 3 languages by the time he was 3 because his parents and nanny only spoke one language to him. Thank you for the tour!
Hi Maarten, Lea and Puck - Thank you for this tour, beautiful little town with such rich history. Nice to see the family taking time together and enjoying other parts of Portugal from the daily routine. Blessings Always.
I am so happy you guys finally enjoy a day out 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🥰🥰
Emigrating to America at a very young age, I am painfully lacking in knowledge of Portuguese history. Thank you so much for showing us around your locale and expanding those limitations.
You’re so very welcome :)
@Asha Green I am fluent in Portuguese & will take your advice. However, I wonder if I would have ever come across Idanha-a-Velha.
Enjoying touring Portugal in your channel. I was lucky enough to make it to tour Spain. God willing, one day I will tour Portugal. Watching all the way from South Africa.
Thank you for sharing Maarten and educating me a Portuguese emigrant to Canada at a very young age.. Never knew this town existed or its history.
to put it simply.....
i love you guys...
Wow! So much to get to know! Thank you Maarten for the history! I’ll be definitely have to read more about it and visit! Puck stole the video! She is getting so big and her hair is growing beautifully! I loved the scene she is holding her hat under her arm, so responsible, in order not to loose it! Thank you for the video! Looking forward to next videos, fall is arriving!
Wonderful video. I enjoyed the history lesson. Marrten did a great job narrating.
Thanks for the tour.....
Thank you for taking me along. It was very interesting..
The stone arches are incredible! I find those old constructions fascinating, thank you for showing. Have a great weekend! 🙂💕
Thanks for sharing, now I have another name in my must-visit list of Portugal. Obrigado！
Thank you! I felt like I had a nice day out.❣️
Very interesting. Fun video😊
Great, last October I was there too and was breathing in the history, some Germans even had been there... Actually I would like to visit you at your land on a weekend.
giving us free tour thanks for sharing !
very enjoyable, missing the quaint villages!
Thank you for showing me a part of Portugal I did not know as I emigrated to USA when u was young
What a lovely village . You make a good tour guide Maarten. I have only been to Portugal once for a holiday in Octber to Playa da Rocha we visited a few places in the area but nothing as beautiful as that. Looking forward to more of the same and your homestead blogs. 😘
Thanks for sharing this country 😁😁
Really interesting. Thanks!
Your getting better everytime keep the video,s coming 👍
Glad to see you love your new home! And are not all work and NO play! The little one walking here and there exploring so cute ! Enjoy your week thanks for sharing!😄🤓🤓🤓
nice video and history of the village, I enjoy your princess she shine in every video, enjoy your family time.
you all have taken me back to all the family outings....Thx for sharing.
Excellent video guys , well done Maarten .
awesome
Thank you for sharing amazing craftsmanship.
Thanks. It’s interesting to see what’s around you and the different civilisations that lived there. Good video
Old Egitania, land of the Egitanii.
thank you marteen--(i hope i spelled your name correct-)-i approve of what you and laya are doing with your lives--and your daughter i enjoy--my grandchildren live in new mexio and colorado u.s. i live in indiana--maybe you could go to your village where you get your supplies--that would be interesting----thank you---deatra
Beautiful scenes and loved that story, hope Leia's is keeping well?
Thank you never heard of it before but on my next time in Portugal that is happen in two weeks I have to find some spare time and wonder to Monsanto region cheers.
The Romans actually used a type of concrete to make nice square blocks for construction. It was tougher and more long-lasting than modern concrete. Wikipedia has a nice description of the process.
I am aware of its use but in this area they would have mainly relied on local stones as they are abundantly available. If you are interested in reading more about roman building materials and methods I would suggest taking a look at this paper. tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1909&context=all_theses
Roman concrete used vulcanic ash, and there's none near Idanha.
thank you for an excellent video, Much love to all five of you(dog included)!
Love the legend! Hmmm can modernise it for a book!
Ancient ❤️❤️❤️
That old tree could well be more than 300 Years. Very near you could see an old "Azinheira(Quercus rotundifolia)" aldeiashistoricasdeportugal.com/local/azinheira-grande/
I think they are much older than 300 years, probably closer to 1000. There were so many big old trees there, amazing to see. We walked passed this specific one on our way to the bridge it was very pretty as well.
nice video...well done..abraço de vila real.
WOW!!! It looks so empty...
The following link indicates that the Church of Santa Maria was built in the 4th or 5th century. The Swabians came to the region in 409 AD, so I think there's a very good chance that the building was actually constructed by the Christian Hispano-Romans. It has a Roman look to it. The Mohammedans turned this Christian church into a mosque in the 9th century, as was their custom.
www.aldeiashistoricasdeportugalblog.pt/en/2019/02/23/se-cathedral-of-the-historic-village-of-idanha-a-velha-a-church-at-the-service-of-two-religions/
You may be right but the confusion for me stems from the sentence in this link where it reads that the construction was built during the Muslim occupation. aldeiashistoricasdeportugal.com/en/local/igreja-de-santa-maria-se-catedral/
I know the romans called the entire Iberian peninsula Hispania but in Portugal we don’t say hispano-roman but luso-roman from Lusitania.
@@ourportuguesehomestead You also could be right but the text in your link is a bit confusing; i.e., the church was built in the 4th or 5th century, another nearby, and then this one was built in the 9th century by the Mohammedans. It is the same church in my view and I didn't notice a single feature that looks like Islamic architecture.
@@slanwar What is taught in the Portuguese schools about the origin of the Lusitanians? Wikipedia indicates that they were "an Indo-European people" but later states they were Celts (Celtiberians or Cimbri). Do Portuguese schools teach where the Celts came from?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanians
I am the first to admit that I could have taken more time to do research on the building’s history. I had a whole story about the manor house de marrocos, but that one was completely locked off so this was a backup. I googled some things and that link was one source and I found this one as well so I went for this story. islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pt;Mon01;5;en
0:41 "In the 4th century it had 200,000 people living here", I think someone told Maarten a fib or something was lost in translation. Looking at a map of Roman roads, it was a small easily defended town on the road to the now exhausted but then important gold mines to the Northwest....
www.spainthenandnow.com/spanish-history/roman-roads-in-hispania
I don’t really see the point of looking at the map. Nevertheless it is quite possible that the 200000 number is wrong. I wasn’t sure whether I should include it, but it happened haha. I read it on the dutch Wikipedia page of Idanha-a-Velha. ‘Van het jaar 16 tot aan de vierde eeuw was de stad Romeins en telde, naar wordt beweerd, 200.000 inwoners.’ nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idanha-a-Velha
@@ourportuguesehomestead You sparked my interest in the history of the place, which made me wonder why the Romans built it there in the first place. I supplied the link to the map to try to show how it connected to the rest of 'Hispania'. Lots of Roman towns were strategically placed 1 day's march from the next, placing it in by a fertile bend on a river would have been ideal, the size of bridge also made me wonder how different the local climate was back then, more forests would mean more rain and constant flow. As I said, you sparked my interest, thank you.
@@maxmaddest9010 in that time there was a big cooper mining industry in this region
When the Romans came to Hispania, they found organized kingdoms and empires, and found strong resistance, hence cities with strong walls and in places easy to defend. The heyday of Idanha was the Visigoth rule, It was a city with Cathedral and bishop. Then the Moors came and destroyed the city. Later, the Christian conquest. Over time, the stones from demolished roman buildings were used for new structures, and eventually Idanha a Nova grew to be a much bigger city.
Is a magic place, where layers upon layers of history can be observed.
Thank you so much Stories of jealous kings and queens make a change from today's politics :) And again Puck stole the show, with her careful bridge crossing and stone stepping. 💕💕
🇬🇧 That river bed looks bone dry. Just one small pond. Presume it fills up in the winter. I know very little about Portugal just what I learned from reading a series by Bernard Cornwell about a Rifles Regiment officer called Richard Sharpe in the Peninsular War which was mostly on the borders with Spain. It was also turned into a tv series which gave viewers an opportunity to see some of the countryside. Portugal is UK's oldest ally. Hope it still is now the country is coming out of the EU.
There were a few ponds under the bridge and between the bridge and where I filmed. Some even had some rather large fish in them, but this time of year a lot of rivers stop running especially those downstream from barragems (dams) and this one has a dam upstream as well (barragem de penha garcia).
The "Peninsular War" was the conflict between Portugal, aided by the British, And the Spanish (under French Napoleon rule). Olivença is a territory were the border line is yet disputed beteen portugal and Spain.
Loved the video and seeing this.. I hate to relay anything negative so please take this as constructive criticism...the background dinner music is far from palatable ..zzzzzzzzzz..I had to keep turning my volume on and off in order to keep watching the entire video but to listen to what was said but avoid the music...otherwise great content!
Kia ora Puke
Go and see MONSANTO, northeast in Portugal. Enormous Boulders and Rocks, high up, on montains. The Templars🇵🇹🇵🇹 build it!
Hi Lisa we’ve been there before with Maarten’s parents but that was without a camera :) it is indeed stunning as well.
@@ourportuguesehomestead Yees, ingredible. 👍
Living in castle would be cool but not as cool as living in tent in the nature !!!
Maarten, your assertion at minute 7:07 is incorrect: It is quite unlikely that the Church of St. Mary would have initially been a mosque. One only needs to take a good look at those arches to see that they are late-Romanesque / early Gothic -- and the abundance of cut-stone with engravings in Roman calligraphy (minutes 8:12 and 8:43) should also testify to the antiquity of the place. That type of medieval building is quite widespread throughout Portugal, and if you were to travel extensively in the northern and central regions you would see it with your own eyes.
Portugal is one of the oldest Christian countries in western Europe:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Braga
Also, do bear in mind that the Moors (Moors, not Arabs -- they were not the same people, even if they shared the same religion!) who came to replace the Suebi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi
and the Visigoths as the ruling class were not as widespread as some people are led to believe. And, most certainly, they did not replace the native population -- they simply became the governors of the regions where they establish themselves by the sheer brutality of their methods!
I hope this helps with the understanding of our History.
All the best.
Thank you for your feedback and encouragement to learn more which I ofcourse intend to do. I have looked at a few sources about the building (some quite confusing) and came across this one islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pt;Mon01;5;en which led me to tell the story the way that I did.
It is quite possible that parts have been added to the building in later periods with those romanesque/gothic arches. I by no means wish to dispute the long history of christianity in Portugal, but the influence of other religions and cultures in Portuguese history I find fascinating as well. What I have read so far about the distinction between Moors and Arabs leads me to believe that it is hard if not impossible to make a clear distinction Moors being a catchall term for pretty much all peoples from northern africa as well as european muslims and Arabs being one of those groups. I tried to use the terms that were used in the sources that I read for each story.
@@ourportuguesehomestead Thank you for your prompt reply. I will be looking into the material in those hyperlinks tomorrow, as it is quite late and I have long passed my usual bedtime (and I'm too tired, anyway). I will let you know my thoughts in due course. Good night for now!
@@miguelcoelho3877 It was very common back then to build on top of older structures using stones from old buildings. And the Moors used to turn old temples into mosques, and the Christians would come and rebuild the place as a church. Idanah a Velha is a very good example of that.
@@jmbpinto73 Yes, I know. Every newly-arrived ruler built on top of preexisting structures, often utilizing the building materials laid out by the previous owners of the land.