ICIA tells stories of corsairs on the beaches of the Algarve and celebrates Gabriel Garcia Márquez at a literary dinner

Ua conference on false landings of Spanish vessels and the diversion of gold in transit from the Americas to Seville on the beaches of Portimo, in the century. XVI, a literary dinner commemorating the fifty years since the publication of One hundred years of Solitude, the mythical novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and a cultural tour to Seville Lusa to meet the marks of the Portuguese who lived there throughout the XNUMXth century, are the proposals of the Ibero-Atlântica Culture Institute (ICIA) for the last quarter of the year .

The first action, with free admission, to be held on October 20, at 18 pm, at Faina/Museu de Portimão, will be led by Maria da Graça Ventura (ICIA- Center for History of the University of Lisbon) who will deliver the conference “Where to stop the gold”, underlining the importance of the Algarve as a transit point on the West Indies route.

According to the historian, “in the XNUMXth century, the natural ports of the Algarve and, in particular, those of Vila Nova de Portimão, were demanded by Spanish, French and English ships. Some take shelter of the corsairs, others try to get hold of American gold and silver. The Algarvians, taking advantage of the close relationship with Andalusia, establish an active complicity with the masters of ships coming from America, to mislead the gold. Such was the feast that the Filipino monarchs appointed overseers to combat the immeasurable fraud”.

On November 17, at 19:30 pm, with prior enrollment limited to thirty literary guests, with priority for its members, the ICIA promotes at Faina a literary dinner, prepared by chef Emido Freire, to celebrate the fifty years of the publication of One hundred years of Solitude, to the rhythm of readings and “vallenatos”.

As João Ventura, chairman of the Board of ICIA said, “it will be a dinner made with the aromas, flavors, wonders and miscegenations that are freed from the pages of the Gabriel Garcia Márquez books: the aroma of guava jam served by Úrsula to celebrate the alchemy prodigy in One hundred years of Solitude. The taste of the “aubergines of love” by Fermina Daza in love in times of anger. The bittersweet flavor of the Caribbean “ceviche”. The mixing of three meats and vegetables on the banks of the Magdalena River with which Colombian “sancocho” is cooked. The prodigious thick chocolate cups that made the inhabitants of Macondo levitate”.

Finally, on December 1 and 2, the ICIA invites you to take a tour of Seville Lusa, following two itineraries that attest to the Portuguese presence in that city throughout the XNUMXth century, visiting palaces, manors, churches, chapels and altarpieces where they lived, prayed , negotiated or artistically created families of Portuguese nobles, sailors, pilots, ship masters, cartographers, leaving marks that are still visible in that Andalusian city.