Reading Portimão

A project by

Teia D’Impulsos

Introducing Portimão

(photo by João Valongo)

Jesuit College(photo by João Valongo)

Town Hall(photo by João Valongo)

Largo da Barca

(photo by João Valongo)

With Reading Portimão, we will:

rescue memories;

revive them;

make them part of our everyday life.

We will connect places and memories

How?

1st step:

Identification of points of interest

Points of interest

• a citation or an iconographic element;

• a QRCode

Multimedia information:

• Identification;

• Citation;

• Brief explanation and historical data;

• Old picture;

• Suggestion to go to the next point;

4 languages

An example...

“Testifying the indigenous lifestyle”

“Feu Hermanos” factory

“We have travelled through the city and visited some factories that, here, are great monuments testifying the indigenous life”

In João Arruda, Cartas d’um viajor, 1908.

In his journey memoirs, João Arruda gave this testimony about the role played by the canning industry in Portimão in the beginning of the 20th century. Only six years had passed since the inauguration of the “Feu Hermanos” factory, property of two brothers from Andalusia: Cayetano and Antonio Feu Marchena. The factory had also a workshop where were made the cans for the sardines and the tuna.The workers were almost only women. With the work of their hands, they turned fresh fish into tinned fish that were exported to the rest of the World.In 1996, the building was bought by the Municipal Council and it became a museum, openned in 2008.

After the work, we need to rest. Follow the worker into their home.

Next stop: the Working Class Neighbourhood.

2nd step:

Building routes

The routes will be:

• circular

• 7 points of interest

• easily made on foot

• thematic cohesion

Examples

• The walled city

• By night

• A day in the fisherman life

• On pilgrimage

• Departures and Arrivals

3rd step:

“Reading Portimão” website

• More information about routes and points of interest

• Sharing of ideas and suggestions

• Documental sources, bibliography, iconography

Thanks to

C.H.I.E.F. / Creative Cultural Heritage

Department of Culture of Portimão Municipal Council

João Valongo