This cultural space offers several services: home loan, referral service, carrying out activities to promote books and reading aimed at both the school community and the public.

Casa do Lavrador is a rural and ethnographic museum, which is part of the Cultural and Recreational Association of Santa Cruz do Douro. It was built in 1999, in honor of Augusto Gomes dos Santos, honorary president of the Portuguese Folklore Federation. This space portrays a peasant's house from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Casa de Tormes is an important museum center relating to the life and work of the writer Eça de Queiroz, as it houses all the assets that belonged to him. In addition to contributing to the preservation and dissemination of the memory of one of the greatest masters of Portuguese language and literature and his work, recognized nationally and internationally, this Foundation intends, above all, to make its heritage available for the cultural and educational elevation of the Portuguese in general, and specially the younger generation.

The result of twnety years of labouring in the Arcaheolgical Digs of the Aboboreira Mountain. Related to several different ages, namely the megaliths age, the bronze age, the roman period and the Christian reconquest.