2021-03-10
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OF THE ANTIQUITY OF THE PLACE
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Built on a 17th century bastion, belonging to the defensive line built around Castelo de Vide more than 300 years ago, the 'Museum of Typhology / Center of Live Experience', results from the delicate architectural recovery.
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The work that has now been done was intended not only to give new use to a beautiful century-old warehouse that existed there, but to preserve and enhance the balanced urban and architectural fabric of the historic center of Castelo de Vide, and also to contribute to the conservation of the city. 17th century Military Architecture, which marks the entire landscape of the Alentejo streak.
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It was in the context of the lengthy and dramatic 28 years of the Restoration Wars of Portugal's independence, which began during the reign of King João IV, that defensive lines, forts and forts throughout the country were planned and built, not just along the border with Spain. , as well as along the entire continental coastline and Atlantic islands. From that period, Portugal still maintains an important Baroque architectural heritage of military genesis, mostly characterized by buildings over 300 years old, which need to be restored.
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Thus, our work, having considered the importance of the place, recovering an existing building in it, will certainly contribute to the preservation of this historic landscape and consequently to the consolidation of the urban fabric of the historic center of Castelo de Vide.
FNSE hymn played by Philharmonic Enarmonia
ABOUT THE BUILDING
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With sober and wise lines of beautiful vernacular architecture and ample interior space, the centenary warehouse took advantage of the angular geometry of the bastion, extending the inclined planes, and therefore its shape is also trapezoidal.
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The interesting ensemble, in which the lower part is covered with the stone left open and the upper part is a white volume, is distinguished by the clarity of the two parts: in stone we see the bastion, in white we see the old warehouse.
Cohesive set, warehouse-bastion, it was from him that this new Museum was born.
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The vernacular architecture of the old warehouse, which was once built on the classical architecture of the bastion, is now valued for having considered the antiquity of its stones, the importance of the place and the historic landscape of Castelo de Vide.
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The Museum building also takes advantage of the physical connection to an olive grove that belongs to it and that runs on a terrace facing east, a terrace limited to the north by a high section of wall covered with stone, and limited to the south by a low wall also in stone. In it, visitors can have contact with Nature.
Text and Photographs by Ana Assis Pacheco
The museum
