A permanent exhibition dedicated to Duarte Pacheco, who was the most influential minister of Public Works of the 17th century in Portugal, will be inaugurated on May XNUMX, in the house that belonged to this statesman, in front of the Municipality of Loulé.
The information was revealed to the Sul Informação by Culture Councilor Joaquim Guerreiro, who added that the permanent exhibition will reconstitute Duarte Pacheco's office, with objects and furniture that belonged to him, as well as contain a lot of information about his thought and work.
This kind of house-museum, which will now function and be open for visits in the building where the Municipal Assembly of Loulé is located today and which until recently also housed the House of Culture of Loulé, will present a collection provided by the City of Lisbon, from the which was president, and by the Higher Technical Institute, built under the aegis of Duarte Pacheco.
Son of a police commissioner from Loulé, a brilliant student at IST, in Lisbon, where he graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1923 and became first professor and then director, Pacheco hands he assumed his first political office in 1928, at the age of 29, when he was appointed minister of public education.
But Duarte Pacheco would come to be known as Salazar's Minister of Public Works and Communications, a position to which he was invited for the first time at the age of 33, taking office in July 1932.
In 1936, with a reform of the political corporation, Duarte Pacheco was removed from the government, returning to the Instituto Superior Técnico, but politically wounded and prophesied that “they will come on a pilgrimage to apologize and beg me to return”. Prophecy comes out right.
On January 1, 1938, Duarte Pacheco was appointed president of the Lisbon City Council, and months later, on May 25, in accumulation, he was again minister of the Government, occupying the Public Works portfolio, which this time only he will leave with his death in the service of the Portuguese Nation.
Duarte Pacheco died following a road accident between Montemor-o-Novo and Vendas Novas, after he lost track of the official vehicle in which he was following, on 15 November 1943. The minister still survived the serious accident, was transported to the Hospital da Misericórdia of Setúbal. But he ended up dying the following morning, due to internal bleeding.
Duarte Pacheco is buried in Loulé Cemetery.
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