The Group of Friends of the Portimão Museum, resuming their usual “Conversations with Portimão in the background”, brings to the conversation on Saturday, November 4th, at 17 pm, at the Faina restaurant of the Portimão Museum, some of the “stories that the sands of the Arade River and the Ria de Alvor tell us” and which have been revealed by the “IPSIIS” group from Porto, in its prospecting activity in the discharge sites of sand from the former dredging.
The activity of IPSIIS members, who use metal detectors, is regulated by specific legislation and authorization, and is framed by the Museum of Portimão, where the pieces found are obligatorily deposited.
Over the years, recalls the Group of Friends of the Portimão Museum (GAMP), “a few thousand metallic and ceramic artefacts were collected, covering a period of approximately four thousand years, from the Chalcolithic to the Contemporary Age, which testify to the human presence and the various civilizations and cultures that inhabited the estuaries of the river Arade and the Ria de Alvor or, who passed through here, trading with local populations».
Some of the pieces found over the years by the members of IPSIIS are now part of the collection and permanent exhibition of the Museu de Portimão.
This gathering will be attended by José Sousa and Paulo Viegas, from the “IPSIIS” group, and will also be an excellent pretext for participants to taste the flavors of Autumn and of a Saint Martin that is so close.
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