CEAA - Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo

Mapa dos povoados de colonização

Exhibition: SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES - Portuguese Modernist Rural Landscapes

Southern Ladscapes virtual tour is a visual storytelling on South European Modernist rural settlements implemented over the 20th century throug a wider process of agricultural reforms and internal colonization policies.

Following a chronological and geographical tour, this storytelling (a work in progress) comprises seven Portuguese agricultural colonies, each constituted by several settlements implemented between 1920s and 1970s by the Internal Colonization Board (Junta de Colonização Interna) - an official organism created in 1936 by the Portuguese Estado Novo regime.

Exhibition structured from the collections of items systematized in the digital content management platform (OMEKA) which is currently under construction.

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