Hotel do Elevador received the last initiative of the cycle of conferences organized by Confraria do Bom Jesus.
Hotel do Elevador received the last initiative of the cycle of conferences organized by Confraria do Bom Jesus.
The new president of Tourism of Porto and North of Portugal visited yesterday the works of requalification of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, candidate for World Heritage of UNESCO. Luís Pedro Martins said that the entity intends to «make known this destination because, once they see the first time, it will be easy to attract and retain tourists».
The professor of the University of Coimbra Rogério de Sousa said yesterday that «to detect the symbolic elements introduced in the complex of Bom Jesus do Monte by D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles (Archbishop of Braga from 1704 to 1728) a guide is necessary».
The work of conservation and restoration that is taking place in the Basílica of Bom Jesus is having precious help of new technologies. A multispectral camera allows, without causing damage, to perceive what kind of interventions were performed in the past and what the original paintings were.
Less than a week after the application of the São João de Braga Festivities to Intangible Cultural Heritage, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had planned to spend the day in the city, beginning by visiting the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte.
The auditorium of the Hotel do Elevador hosted yesterday another conference at Bom Jesus do Monte, dedicated to the devotional and behavioral reality of bracarense society of the centurie XVI and XVII.
The historian Aurélio de Oliveira dismounted yesterday, in Bom Jesus do Monte, certain convictions regarding the origins of the pictorial and plastic representations present in the sanctuary bracarense, underlining the importance of the franciscans in expanding devotion to the Cross.
Pedro Vilas Boas Tavares, lecturer of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, was the guest of another session of the “Conferências do Bom Jesus do Monte”, which took place yesterday at the Hotel do Parque, in the office of the Bom Jesus.
Bracarenses invited to see Bom Jesus with the objective of the heart. Visit the exhibition at Bom Jesus, Cónego Cândido Pedrosa Exhibition Center.
The Confraria do Bom Jesus has the honor to invite you to the awards ceremony, the winners of the “Bom Jesus na Objetiva”