Portugal exalts the heart of D. Pedro as a symbol of the bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil – Observer
The municipality of Porto and the Portuguese ambassador to Brazil this Monday considered the arrival of the symbol of the heart of D. Pedro IV, the “soldier king”, to Brasília, one of the highlights of the celebrations of the bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil.
First of all, it is symbolically very important for Brazil that the heart of the first Emperor D. Pedro returns. It is also very important for Portugal, he was a crucial figure in the claim of freedom in Portugal”, said the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, in an interview deposited by TV Globo.
“And for the city of Porto that I represent here, because he was also the one who freed us from the yoke we learned and was considered by the population of Porto as a soldier king”, he added.
Already the ambassador of Portugal, Luis Faro Ramos, was with the arrival of the journalist remains in Brazil and special D. Brasil 200 years ago”.
Dom Pedro’s name is always linked to relations between our countries”, stressed the ambassador.
Ramos added that the presence of the former monarch’s heart is “a high point in the context of the bicentennial celebrations, for which Brazil keeps Portugal associated, which we are very happy to do”.
D. Pedro’s heart arrived this Monday morning in Brasília to be displayed in the commemorations of the bicentennial of the country’s independence, on September 7th.
The organ, which left Portugal for the first time and arrived in the country inside a golden urn, was received at the Brasília air base with the honors of a head of state and taken under tight security. of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.lin
Before coming closer to the heart of the South American country that became independent from Portugal in 1822, it became the leadership of the first emperor of Brazil, which reached the first emperor of Brazil, the Port of the “Soldier King”, which he arrived in the country in 185. he rarely left the mausoleum of the chancel of the church of Lapa, an exhibition open to the public during the weekend.
To retrieve from the small mahogany coffin kept in the mausoleum it takes five keys, a thousand care and a complex operation.
Conserved in formaldehyde inside a glass container, which, inside a gilded silver casket, the heart of D. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal enchanted, in the two days, 6,294 children and adults, from Porto and abroad (3,426 visitors ) on Saturday and 2,868 on Sunday).
The heart of D. Pedro returns to the city of Porto on the 9th of September, being on display again on the 10th and 11th, before being put back under lock and key.