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Fortaleza de Sagres
Joćo Carreira | |
| location | Sagres |
| function | atelier, cafe, culture, exposition space, information centre, renovation, shop |
| contributed by | NGHM |
A bulwark-like fortress on a unusual beautiful place, on the Cabo de Sćo Vicente (St. Vincent's Cape) overlooking the Enseada da Mareta (Mareta Inlet) with a historically unique position in the national mythology, has been much reformed in the second half of the 18th century. Traces of ruins go back as far as the 12th century. In the 90's last century the architectural intervention to improve the Fortress under a project made by the architect Joćo Carreira, from Porto, - though polemical - included the construction of a module for temporary exhibitions and a multimedia centre (reusing the "correnteza", the existing row of houses), some shops to promote cultural goods, and a cafeteria, thus making it possible to introduce order and maintain the whole historic ensemble. The services in the Sagres Fortress also work as a technical support group to the IPPAR archaeological interventions in the Algarve.
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