Azeitão recebeu centenas de convidados e inaugura exposição Catarina de Bragança
This year's Bacalhôa Wine's Summer Party pays homage to D.ª Catarina de Bragança (Princess of Portugal and Queen of England), with an exhibition that was inaugurated last week, by the Duke of Bragança and the historian José Hermano Saraiva.
This exhibition assembles an extensive iconographic and documental patrimony, among oil paintings, engravings, the wedding contract with Charles II of England, as well as a varied set of objects that was collected for the 1988 building project of a 10m-tall statue in Queens (New York). The Berardo Foundation, along with the Bacalhôa Wines of Portugal, contributed with some original pieces of this exhibition.
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On Thursday evening, the famous Bacalhôa, Wines of Portugal, Summer Party was held at the Quinta da Bassaqueira (Setúbal). Professor José Hermano Saraiva and Dom Duarte de Bragança presided over the speeches and inaugurated an iconographic exhibition, dedicated to Dona Catarina de Bragança, the Portuguese Princess and Queen of England, who was responsible for introducing in Great-Britain the social habit of drinking tea.
This is a homage to a queen that, according to Joe Berardo, has been "ill-treated in America", since its Afro-american community refused the construction of a statue in Queens (USA), alleging that Catherine of Braganza would have been responsible for the 17th century slavery. Joe Berardo considers this as an ill-interpretation, explaning that "as a widower, this queen dedicated part of her richness to buy slaves, in order to set them free".
This historical exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Bacalhôa, Wines of Portugal, which has also released a new label, named "Catarina".
The party assembled more than 200 guests, in a huge outdoor dinner, livened up by several musical performances and fireworks.
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Last weekend, Arganil's Brotherhood of the
Bucho decided to recreate the events of June 8th, 9th and 10th of 1907 (when king D. Carlos and prince D. Luís Filipe visited the municipality) by inviting the Duke of Bragança to come to the region.
During the Town's Hall session, D. Duarte Pio confessed that, although it was his first official visit to the municipality, he used to enjoy his Summer vacations in Serpins, where his aunt had a house. The duke of Bragança advocated the necessity of "preserving the cultural identity" of the region, otherway the countryside may "become a suburb and a desert area". After the ceremony, there was a stroll by the Vale do Alva, Côja, Vila Cova de Alva, Avô and Ponte das Três Entradas.
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Investigadora perde esperança de abrir túmulo de D. Afonso Henriques - RTP Informação
The Portuguese anthropologist Eugénia Cunha (from the University of Coimbra) - who was forbidden to open the tomb of D. Afonso Henriques - says now that she has lost all her hopes in retaking the investigations on the bones of Portugal's first king. The project intended to study the bones of the man who found the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1143, by reconstituting his biological profile, physical structure, stature, age, as well as some of the pathologies that had affected his bones.
Last year (on July 6th), the Portuguese Institute of the Architectonic Patrimony (IPPAR) stopped this project, when a Luso-Spaniard team, headed by the scientist Eugénia Cunha, was already removing one of the rocks from the royal tomb, in the Church of Santa Cruz. The decision was applauded at the time, by the monarchic sectors, namely by D. Duarte Pio de Bragança.
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The Town Hall of Cascais inaugurated, on June 28th, the exhibition "Mar! Obra Artística do Rei D. Carlos", in the Museum of the Sea - King D. Carlos. It includes nearly 120 works, among aquarelles, oil paintings and drawings on different materials, as well as a varied set of objects also painted by the king, between the last quarter of the 19th century and the first years of 20th). The exhibition constitutes a rare opportunity to see what usually is inaccessible, since the majority of the works belong to private collections.
By painting boats and accomplishing a series of pioneering studies of Oceanography, King D. Carlos expressed his great love for the sea. In 1896, the monarch decided to install the first oceanographical laboratory in the Palace of Cidadela. Between 1896 and 1907, he started in Cascais a series of 12 oceanographical campaigns, which constituted a landmark in the portuguese scientific history.
This extraordinary exhibition takes place at the same time as the Sailing World Championship, which is currently happening in Cascais, between June 28th and July 13th.
Source: Câmara Municipal de Cascais
