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Trio of researchers launches book on the history of the Convent of São Francisco

By • April 2, 2024 - 14:21

Work will be presented on April 20th, at the Colégio de Portimão Church

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Convent of São Francisco today – Photo: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação

The medievalist Miguel Côrte-Real, the architect Rita Cerático Pereira and the researcher Nuno Campos Inácio joined forces and skills to produce an unprecedented monographic essay on the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança in Portimão (designated as the Convent of São Francisco, as it belongs to to the Francisca Order of Capuchos of the Province of Piedade), which will be presented on April 20th, at 16 pm, at the Colégio de Portimão Church.

The event will feature a musical moment performed by the Grupo Coral Adágio, which will sing Renaissance music.

The book «Convento de Nossa Senhora da Esperança de Portimão – From documentary chronology to biographical and architectural context», which also has a special contribution on the convent's tiles, by Maísa Trindade, consists of around 300 pages, in a high-quality graphic production, to highlight the architectural elevations of the building and the large dozens of images related to the convent, its founder and the community it housed.

This work is launched when 500 years pass after the oldest documentary reference to the Church of Nossa Senhora da Esperança, which was the origin of the convent (1524), even though it was only created, around that temple, from 1530, with the donation made by Simão Correia.

Arandis Editora, graphic producer of the work, opened a pre-acquisition campaign at a promotional price, which can be purchased in www.arandiseditora.pt.

 

 


On the verge of celebrating five centuries of construction and more than a century of abandonment and degradation, Miguel Côrte-Real, Rita Cerático Pereira and Nuno Campos Inácio came together to elaborate the never-told story of the founder, the moth and the Franciscan community of the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança in Portimão.
Through the pen of the medievalist Miguel Côrte-Real, the ethereal image of the founder Simão Correia acquires the contours of reality, in an unprecedented family and genealogical biography and contextualization, unveiling the life and work of this famous Captain of Azamor, with connections to notable families from the Barlavento Algarvio, presenting documents that greatly enrich the history of the convent, Portimão, the Algarve and the Franciscan Order.
The architect Rita Cerático Pereira, awarded an honorable mention from the «National Prize for Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture», in addition to carrying out a notable architectural survey of the convent and its surroundings, fully demonstrates that the degradation of this heritage is reversible and as a Abandoned and ruined space can contribute to a new urban and cultural centrality between the Portimão Riverfront and Praia da Rocha.
Researcher Nuno Campos Inácio presents a list of unpublished documents about the community, from which the following stand out: a list of the friars who lived in the convent; the forums and heritage of this Franciscan community; the list of individuals buried in the convent; the list of books that made up his library, among other aspects of notable historical interest.
In the year of the centenary of the elevation of Vila Nova de Portimão to the city and 500 years after the oldest documentary reference to the Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Esperança, which was the basis for the construction of the convent, the authors claim to have «the hope that this work will contribute to enhance, safeguard and recover the only notable XNUMXth century building that survives in that city».




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