Browsing Archive: January, 2012

Those Were The Days.....

Posted by Marianne Hoesen on Sunday, January 8, 2012, In : way of life

When you ask one of the older inhabitants that has lived in São Marcos da Serra his/her entire life, to tell you about the past, you will probably hear a deep sigh first. "Aaahhhh, when I was young, things were very diffent here...." The village was prosperous, the hills were clean from weeds, there were no ruins and the montes (houses) were full of life and people.

In the fifties of the last century São Marcos da Serra was indeed a busy place. There were around ...