Casa de Cantoneiros do Falacho

23/12/2017

If life gives you lemons...

13/04/2017

the first sightseeing tourist of the day...

18/12/2016

Have a nice day!

10/08/2016

Paulo Heitlinger has done a wonderful collection of the font type Cantoneiros. You can find some additional information here: http://www.tipografos.net/fonts/cantoneiros.html

Cantoneiros,Art Deco Typeface design em tipografos.net, fontes digitais de Paulo Heitlinger

02/05/2016

The refurbishment of the main building was made by Nada Arquitectos - Silves (architecture) and Edicontract - Lagoa (construction) between 2013 and 2014.

25/04/2016

The white-blue tiles (azulejos in Portuguese) are from Companhia da Fábrica Cerâmica Lusitânia, in Lisbon.
More information at this interesting blog post: http://restosdecoleccao.blogspot.pt/2012/11/companhia-das-fabricas-de-ceramica.html

25/04/2016

Green and blue. The spring finally!

12/04/2016

The Cantoneiros house of Falacho is located in the national road EN 124, two and an half kilometres west from the city of Silves.
The Falacho house is firstly mentioned in a map of buildings in 1889, although there is no information about the initial project or the date of construction. The first available house plan is dated from 1900. The initial topology divides the house in five spaces: one for a community kitchen and the other four, each with two rooms, for housing the cantoneiros and their families.
The current aspect of the house, including the inscriptions in the blue tiles (azulejos), is from a main retrofitting made in 1937. This renovation included the conversion of the four apartments in two, each with three rooms and an independent kitchen.
Source: ADFAR/JAE

06/04/2016

Why a Cantoneiros house?
The effectiveness of the Cantoneiros' activity, i.e. road maintenance, was only possible with the permanent presence of the cantoneiros in their cantons. Thus, since the mid 19th-century, the Portuguese state decided to build dedicated houses for these workers and their families. The properties were simultaneously the place of living for the families and the sites to store all equipment related with the road maintenance activity. This allowed to fix the working force where it was needed, many times at some distance from the main villages.
From the mid 20th-century, with the development of the automotive industry and the extension of the road network, the cantoneiros were replaced by centralized construction companies under public contracts.

06/04/2016

What is a Cantoneiro?
A Cantoneiro was a person responsible for all tasks related with the maintenance of a set of roads in a region (or canton from which the portuguese word cantoneiro derives).

06/04/2016

In 2011, the researcher Maria Isabel Carneiro submitted her MSc dissertation about the Cantoneiros' houses in the Algarve region of Portugal. The work was developed at Universidade Aberta in the scope of Heritage Studies. It includes several references to the Falacho house that we will cite in this page.
The document, in Portuguese, is available for download at: http://repositorioaberto.uab.pt/handle/10400.2/1821