Loulé will mark next Wednesday, December 1st, the 381 of the Restoration of Independence, with the raising of the flag, a visit to the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição and lectures.
The commemorative program starts at 10:00 am, at Praça D. Afonso III, next to the wall of the Castle of Loulé, with the raising of the National Flag to the sound of the National Anthem performed by the Banda Filarmónica Artistas de Minerva.
At 10:15 am, at the door of the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, where the tombstone commemorating the “vote of thanksgiving” of King João IV is located, the municipal executive will lay flowers on the façade of this ecclesiastical building located in the Historic Area of Loulé .
At that moment, Vítor Aleixo, president of the Loulé Chamber, will make a brief intervention alluding to the celebration of the Restoration of Independence.
At 10:30 am, the lecture “How the Restoration of Independence in Loulé was lived”, presented by Luísa Martins, researcher of local history.
At that time, the evocative reading of the Atas de Vereação and the names of the men who represented the council in the Cortes of 1641 will be carried out.
The program ends with another lecture: Ricardo Louro will talk about “The Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a visit through History and Art”. A landmark heritage feature, this chapel dates back to the mid-XNUMXth century.
Its construction began in 1656 following the designs of King João IV, who consecrated Nossa Senhora da Conceição as the patron saint of Portugal and ordered that a tombstone evocative of the Restoration of Independence be placed at the entrances to towns and cities.
The Restoration of Independence is the name given to the revolutionary coup d'état that took place on December 1, 1640, led by a group known as “The Forty Conjured Ones”, and which ended 60 years of Filipino rule (Kingdom of Spain).
This date recalls the action of Portuguese nobles, who on December 1, 1640 invaded the Royal Palace and killed Miguel de Vasconcelos, the representative of Spain in Lisbon. The coup culminated in the establishment of the 4th Portuguese Dynasty — the Casa de Bragança — with the acclaim of King João IV.
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