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Mira has a strong maritime vocation and one of the<br />

most traditional arts takes place on the beach and is<br />

a picture postcard for visitors: the Xávega art.<br />

The boats, called “half-moons”, shallow to slip on<br />

the sand, cast their seine nets and at the ends have<br />

ropes with buoys. One of the ropes stays on land.<br />

The net is stretched out in the open sea, in the<br />

centre is a net bag and the boat brings the other end.<br />

The ropes are pulled by tractors and until a few years<br />

ago by ox-joints. As the locals say, this process by<br />

trawling “is to fish by seine and haul to shore”.<br />

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