Typical village of Jose Franco, Sobreiro, Mafra
Mafra, Lisboa, Portugal
Typical village of Jose Franco, Sobreiro, Mafra
Typical village of Jose Franco, Sobreiro, Mafra
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The story of the small village goes back to the birth of the potter José Franco in 1920. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a vending machine selling pottery from door to door as well as many fairs and markets. Since the Cork Oak was an important potter's center, José Franco had lived with the trade since he was an early child, and when he left primary school he learned the trade with two local master potters before working on his own at the age of 17 . At that time, he rehabilitated the pottery that had belonged to his grandfather, long since disabled.
In the early 60's, José Franco gave wings to a dream, to recreate a village of ethnographic character, where his memories of childhood crystallized, a testimony to the way of life of the local people, in homage to his land. Its village would have two components: it would be a replica of the old workshops and shops, the spaces lived, decorated and equipped with real objects, where the customs and work activities intrinsic to their childhood and the rural life of the Mafra region were reproduced; At the same time, the village comprised a playful area dedicated to children, filled with miniatures of houses and inhabitants that depicted the activities carried out at the time: fieldwork, carpentry, windmills, chapels, grocery stores, schools, cellars, peasants and even a reproduction of the fishing village of Ericeira and the crafts connected to the sea. In later years, the Village-Museum was benefited by the construction of a third castle-walled area with a children's playground, incorporating some agricultural machinery that children could move freely.
Today, the small world shaped by the hands of José Franco (deceased in 2009) is visited annually by thousands of people. And in addition to the exhibition of the figures, in the museum dedicated to him, visitors will find human-scale replicas of castles' walls, windmills, a playground, a small wine cellar where they can taste the local wine or even the bakery , where they can buy the famous bread with chorizo, among others. In the village of José Franco it is the dedication of a lifetime to the noble traditional activity of the pottery, exposing still the rich artisan culture of the Municipality of Mafra.
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