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A memorial will be built around a 165-year-old, 53-metre-tall eucalyptus tree that was knocked down by storms.
The President laid a wreath this afternoon at the Memorial to the Victims of the 2017 Fires. The monument, located on the National Road 236-1 between Castanheira de Pera and Figueiró dos Vinhos, honours the 115 people who died in the fires of June and October of that year.
It was in the French capital that the founder of the Socialist Party (PS), a former President of the Republic and former Prime Minister, lived in exile.
The memorial 'Windows of Freedom', a public art intervention by artist Irene Buarque evoking the life and work of architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira (1922–2016), will be inaugurated on Friday in Lisbon, Galeria Ratton announced today.
The work will be installed beside the Caxias prison and will be an “artistic and ethical gesture evoking resistance and the struggle for freedom,” the municipality says.
A tile panel by visual artist Graça Morais will be presented on Thursday at Palácio Anjos in Algés.
A charity gala marks the anniversary of the collapse of the Hintze Ribeiro bridge, which killed 59 people.
