{"id":2899,"date":"2023-04-08T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:39:45","slug":"fietstocht-2023-golega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/reistype\/fietsen\/fietstocht-2023-golega\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike tour 2023: Goleg\u00e3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2899\" class=\"elementor elementor-2899\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aa791e6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7aa791e6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e21340 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5e21340\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bike tour 2023: Goleg\u00e3<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a9c88f4 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"6a9c88f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-7f530f1 elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/2023\/04\/08\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>8 April 2023<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-6863c75 elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"about\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-terms\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/blogtype\/cultuur\/\" class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list-item\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/reistype\/fietsen\/\" class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list-item\">Cycling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/en\/category\/land\/portugal\/\" class=\"elementor-post-info__terms-list-item\">Portugal<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63136f5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63136f5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1160ec9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1160ec9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f8f6b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1f8f6b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Paardenkoets_1.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2902\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Paardenkoets_1.webp 800w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Paardenkoets_1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Paardenkoets_1-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4699426 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4699426\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-232c390 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"232c390\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align);\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">6-8 April: Goleg\u00e3, capital of horses and pioneer in photography<\/span><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">On Thursday evening, I arrived at the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; color: #00285e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cm-golega.pt\/informacoes\/noticias\/item\/136-parque-de-campismo-municipal-da-golega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Parque de Campismo Municipal da Goleg\u00e3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">. On a road sign I read that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var( --e-global-color-3a976eb ); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: bolder;\">Goleg\u00e3\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">was the 'horse capital' of Portugal. I would stay here for two nights, but I was intrigued by the horses and also by the very special photo studio of the 19th century amateur photographer\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var( --e-global-color-3a976eb ); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: bolder;\">Carlos Relvas<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">. Unfortunately, tomorrow is Good Friday, a festive day in Portugal when everything is closed. So I decided to spend a third night in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var( --e-global-color-3a976eb ); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; font-weight: bolder;\">Goleg\u00e3<\/span><span style=\"font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">\u00a0to remain.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Indeed, everything in the village revolves around horses: signposts, nameplates, murals, etc. Every November, the village organises a big horse fair of international repute. The breed of horse is called 'Lusitano', a pure-blood breed with very good qualities for dressage and bullfighting.<br \/>There are many Lusitano horse breeders in the village. Their houses can be recognised by a large inverted 'woman symbol' (circle with cross on it), with their initials inside the circle. Goleg\u00e3's central square is not paved; it is a huge equestrian centre surrounded by something resembling a racecourse. On YouTube, I found a video of the 2021 horse fair:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00285e;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wlO8FGG-enk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wlO8FGG-enk<\/a><br \/>Next to the central horse square is the Lusitano horse-breeding club, the headquarters of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">'Feira Nacional do Cavalo<\/span>' (FNC) and stables.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">I also saw several horses and carriages in the streets.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Goleg\u00e3<\/span>\u00a0is not only famous for its horses. It also has the most striking and luxurious photo studio I have ever seen. It was built in the 19th century by\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Carlos Relvas<\/span>\u00a0(1838 - 1894), a very wealthy nobleman and amateur photographer. Relvas' aim was to give photography, which painters looked at with contempt, the status of 'art'.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96d3b6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"96d3b6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1-1024x768.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2903\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/reachoutforacause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-April_Golega_2-1.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Photo studio by Carlos Relva<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8bd301c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8bd301c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd3c70e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd3c70e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Between 1871 and 1875, he built a\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">lush photo studio<\/span>, which looks more like a palace or temple than a studio. It contains a whopping 33 tonnes of steel! The actual studio is on the upper floor and is made entirely of glass, including the roof. Curtains hang all around to manipulate the light in the studio. Daylight was very important because there was no electricity in Portuguese villages in the 19th century, so he could not use lamps and had to make do with candles in the dark. Hard to imagine, these days.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: Open Sans, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">The ground floor has a technical darkroom with all the original equipment he used and a 'sepia' room to give photos a reddish sepia appearance. The sepia room is now being used to make a film about the life and photographic work of <b>Relvas<\/b> exhibit.<\/span><\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #2c2c28; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 17.136px; font-style: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-style ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: var(--text-align); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-text-text-transform );\">The third room downstairs is a lavishly decorated reception\/waiting room where the rich and famous, including the royal family, waited to be photographed in the upstairs studio.<\/span><\/div><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Relvas photographed not only the rich, but also ordinary and even very poor people, sailors, farmers, etc. He wanted to capture life in Portugal as it was at the time. However, all these people of little standing were not allowed into the luxurious reception area. They had to use external stairs that took them directly to the studio. However, Relvas not only documented their lives, he was also held in high esteem for his and his wife's charity.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">Because he was so rich, Relvas could afford to buy state-of-the-art equipment and lenses all over Europe and experiment with the latest technological developments. He was allowed to join the very exclusive French Association of Photographers and won several awards around the world.<br \/>Photography was Relvas' passion, but he was also a talented horseman, bullfighter and inventor. After witnessing a shipwreck, he designed a highly functional lifeboat.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; color: #2c2c28; font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\">I followed the tour - the only way to visit the studio - along with\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bolder;\">Cathy and Ray<\/span>\u00a0from Australia. Ray is fascinated by the earliest photographic techniques and knows a lot about them. He explained to me how Relvas must have worked:<br \/>Downstairs is his technical darkroom, he coated one side of a clean glass plate with a thin layer of collodion, a fairly thick substance made of cotton. Then he dipped the plate in a silver nitrate bath and put it in a wooden cover. Then he ran upstairs to his studio where his model was posing, inserted the glass plate into a still-wet camera and exposed it from five to several dozen seconds. Then he slid the glass plate back into the sleeve and hurried back to his darkroom to develop and fix the picture... This whole process could take no longer than 2 minutes, depending on the length of the exposure time chosen.<br \/>Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take photos inside the house.<\/p><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);\"><span style=\"color: #2c2c28; font-family: Open Sans, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.136px; letter-spacing: normal;\">The other two museums I wanted to visit, the <b>Rural Museum<\/b> and <b>Equuspolis<\/b> with the <b>Museu Municipal Martins Correia<\/b> (painter and sculptor), are closed over the weekend.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b336b57 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"b336b57\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div 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