Cross season between France and Portugal already attracts more than three million people
“We are in the Season, we can in the total of more than three million people who have been highlighted Cruz say in what we have of final demonstrations in Portugal, more than 2 cities, which had public place in 84 cities in 5555555550 400 artists, cultural agents, but also scientists, academics and people from all areas, who are to intensify the contact between Portugal and France”, João Gomes Cravinho of Foreign Affairs, statements to journalists, after visiting the exhibition “The golden age of the Portuguese Renaissance”, in The Louvre Museum.
The Portuguese Foreign Minister is in Paris for visits to UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Louvre Museum and for a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart, Catherine Colonna, on Friday.
The exhibition at the Louvre, according to the Portuguese minister, has been “an enormous success”, arousing the interest of French and foreign visitors to the world’s largest museum.
“The director of the Louvre told me that the exhibition has been a huge success in the summer months. It is full and has been full over the months, with a French audience and months with great curiosity about what was international in a very special time.” in the history of Portugal and the world”, said the official.
Since June 10th, 13 works of Portuguese painting from the 15th and 16th centuries, by pioneers such as Nuno Gonçalves, Jorge Afonso, Cristóvão de Figueiredo, Frei Carlos and Gregório Lopes, have been on display in the novelty room of the painting department of the Museu do Louvre Museum, with this exhibition on view until October 10th.
The Cruzada Season between France and Portugal is a bilateral diplomacy initiative between Portugal and France that aims to deepen the cultural relationship between the two countries, having started in February 2022. It ends at the end of October.