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
22/06/2022
Father António Cardim Fróis
António Cardim Fróis, son of João Dias Tosquiado and Maria Cardim Fróis, he submitted himself the so-called "minor orders" and of "epistole" in 1592. ...
HERITAGE
06/06/2022
The Hostel of Santa Maria and the Fellowship of the Good Shepherds Men
This Hostel was founded by Fernão Martins, his wife and their children in the beginning of the 14th century or, maybe, still in the end of the 13th century. In years to come, they would be the ...
NOTABLE PEOPLE
28/06/2022
António Pais Godinho, Father
He was born in Santa Luzia, a parish of the municipality of Ourique, in 1668. He studied at the Évora University where he obtained his bachelor degree in theology and became a graduate and m...
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