| Summary: | The Tua Valley, in northern Portugal, is undergoing an intense transformation with the conclusion
of the construction of the Foz-Tua dam. As a consequence, part of the valley and part of the centennial Tua
railway will be flooded by the dam’s lake. However the complete consequences of this undertaking are yet to
be fully known and understood. In this paper we do not aim to judge the decision to build the dam or to close
the railway line. Our goal is to display the technological evolution of the Tua Valley and question the interpretation
of this region as both symbolic and technological landscape. We wish to contribute to the debate about
understanding landscape, and discuss the frontier between technology and landscape, two realities that are
often seen as incompatible and disagreeing
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