page_title: Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Mask Diabo of Portugal used on folk fest of Carnaval on Tras-os-Montes, o distrito de Braganca. This photo has been taken in the country: Brazil
context_page_description: Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro is a historical province of Portugal located in the northeastern corner of the country. Vast plateaus, river valleys, mountains, and castles abound in Trás os Montes e Alto Douro.
context_section_description: Due to the region's isolation from outside influence, many folkloric forms have remained preserved up to the modern day.  One example would be the area's distinctive traditional bagpipe, the gaita transmontana.  Not only did Trás-os-Montes maintain a piping tradition as bagpipes in general declined throughout Europe, but the regional bagpipe also shows many aspects of pre-modern musical scales which have been preserved.
  Also, it's in this region that is spoken the second official language of Portugal, the Mirandese language.
caption: Mask Diabo used on folk fest of Carnaval.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "3892", "Image ImageLength": "5838", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D7200", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2020:02:01 13:23:00", "Image ExifOffset": "288", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1102", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3175", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/40", "EXIF FNumber": "63/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "640", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0231", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2019:12:23 15:33:23", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:12:23 15:33:23", "EXIF OffsetTime": "-05:00", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "665241/125000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "331919/62500", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-1/3", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "8/5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "30", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "40", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "40", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3892", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "5838", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "83841555/32768", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "83841555/32768", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "3", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "45", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "Low gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "2602201", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[18, 35, 9/5, 9/5]", "EXIF LensModel": "18.0-35.0 mm f/1.8"}