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The Nautical Arts Centre emerges as a proposal from the Municipality of Vila do Conde to respond to the needs of preserving, safeguarding and enhancing the local coastal cultural heritage, as well as to face the socio-economic challenges existing in this territory. Located in a former Cod Drought building, recently classified as Heritage of Municipal Interest, which will be recovered and adapted in order to be dedicated to the valorisation, interpretation and investigation of the local coastal heritage and, in particular, of the traditional techniques of wooden shipbuilding, currently in the process to enrol the Portuguese National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It will also be a new resource centre for the territory in this domain, with an open workshop/arts and crafts area that will allow the development of other types of services and services for the city and region. Through a wide network of partners, the project will also seek to foster new dynamics in the relationship between the coastal cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, and the local community, thus reinforcing social cohesion and the sustainable development of this territory.