Knowing the History is a project of Viana do Alentejo Municipality, set in motion in 2013, whose goals are the knowledge, preservation and divulgation of Viana do Alentejo county’s history and heritage - parishes of Aguiar, Alcáçovas and Viana do Alentejo. This is the project’s website, created in 2017, with a double aim: on the one hand, to divulge the activities and results of the project itself; on the other hand, to gather and to publicly provide, in a single platform, pertinent scientific information within the scope of the municipal history and heritage.
In this section is the scientific base information regarding the municipality’s history and heritage, subdivided into five separators: Institutions, Heritage, Notable People, Publications and Information Repositories.
In this section is the information regarding the project’s activities: colloquia, exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, workshops, tertulias and thematic events.
This section provides the schedule of the project Knowing the History activities, and news regarding these activities.
The information in this section has not been translated.
NOTABLE PEOPLE
28/06/2022
Joana da Gama
Joana da Gama was born around 1520 in Viana, daughter of Manuel Casco and of Filipa da Gama. She founded, in Évora, the seclusion Salvador do Mundo (Savior of the World) that, later on and i...
NOTABLE PEOPLE
24/06/2022
João da Fonseca (Father)
Born in Viana do Alentejo, João da Fonseca was son of Bartolomeu Soudo and Ana Coelho. He joined the brotherhood of the Companhia the Jesus at the age of seventeen for his o novitiate in &Ea...
HERITAGE
05/07/2022
Church of the Misericordia of Alcáçovas
Túlio Espanca stated that the church of the Misericórdia of Alcáçovas started in 1551, the year in which, on the 13th of June, a donation was made for the purpose of the ho...
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