Centenary newspapers from Brazil and Portugal on display in Alcáçovas!
On the edge of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Independence of Brazil, the Paço dos Anos, in Alcáçovas, will host, on September 11, from 4:30 pm, an evocative session of the centenary Portuguese and Henriques newspapers.
The session will be attended by the mayor of Viana do Alentejo, Luis Miguel Duarte, the president of the Portuguese Press Association, João Palmeiro, the president of the Pernambuco Press Association, Múcio Aguiar Neto, and the ambassador of Brazil. in Portugal, Raimundo Carrero Silva.
As part of the cycle From the Desert of News to the Forest of Memory and to mark the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence, the exhibition “Centennial Newspapers of Brazil and Portugal: A Cultural Legacy” is open to the public, curated by João Palmeiro and Múcio Aguiar. Grandchild.
The exhibition that brings together two centuries of history and 55 newspapers, for two centuries of history and Brazilians, broadcast continuously for more than a hundred years, has been a journey for more than a hundred years, a journey for more than a hundred years, which took place on both sides. of the Atlantic. The exhibition also shows photographic portraits of 22 personalities from the world of culture and journalism, but also the importance of the Diário treaty of Alcáçovas, signed on September 4, 1479. 1825, and the oldest Portuguese-language newspaper, and “O Açoriano”, founded on April 18, 1835, in São Miguel, in the Azores, the oldest newspaper in circulation in Portugal.
The exhibition “Centennial Newspapers of Brazil and Portugal: A cultural legacy” is the result of a partnership between the Municipality of Viana do Alentejo, the Alcáçovas Parish Council, the Portuguese Press Association and the Pernambuco Press Association.
The exhibition, which will be open to the public until 2023, can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, between 10 am and 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
The celebrations end with the performance of the Grupo Coral Juvenil dos Trabalhadores de Alcáçovas, on the bandstand in the public garden, starting at 18:30.