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Évora District Archive (1x8)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Μαρ 27, 2021

Évora District Archive holds a series of documents that, sought after by people coming to Évora from all over the world, give it an international dimension. It was created in 1912, and is housed at the Colégio do Espírito Santo since 1962. It works daily to catalogue, preserve and archive thousands of kilometres of district documents loaded with history, coming mainly from registry offices and courts. Among a great number documents, dating from the early 14th century to the 21st century, stand out the parchments of the Municipality of Évora, the collection of the convent’s choir books with liturgical music, the baptismal register of King João IV and his daughter Catarina de Bragança, the book of the Brothers of Mercy signed by King Manuel and Queen Leonor. These are documents full of information, memories, stories, to visit and reinvent in cultural activities.