Mission

The "História do Mármore" web portal mission is to aquire, manage, spread, conserve and preserve all existant information sources in all kinf of suports about marble industry history and heritage, information gathered from public and private librarys or from CECHAPs own archive. This is the tool to answer the ambitions of the general public, the ornamental stone sector or the academic comunity.

  • Creat a Documentation and Information Center (DIC) which gathers all recovered information about this activity and works as a online digital spreading tool;
  • Promote Alentejo's "marble zone" (Zona dos Mármores) and give value to marble importance as a natural resource as well as its application in all kinds of heritage, such as architecture, urbanism or the landscape;
  • Preserving immaterial heritage: picking data, processing and preserving the inherit memoires of pre-industrial and industrial activity and respective workers, as a way to record all their personal experience in the quarries, workshops or marble processing units in all counties where marble sector as relevance;
  • Give a contribuition for the preservation and transmitions of marble sector memoires to next generations, keeping alive the activity origins.
  • Be used as a tool to the development of new studys and works about the geographical area covered by the marble activity.

 

The Team

ARMANDO QUINTAS

Technical Assistance
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

aquintas.cechap@gmail.com

 

Academic Qualification

Licenciado em História Património Cultural - Universidade de Évora, Mestre em Gestão e Valorização do Património Industrial - Universidade  de Paris I, Évora e Pádua (Erasmus Mundus TPTI), tem desenvolvido estudos sobre a indústria e industrialização em Portugal, sobretudo no Sul de Portugal

CARLOS FILIPE

Coordination Assistance
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

cfilipe.cechap@gmail.com

 

Academic Qualification

Curso Gestão – especialidade eventos culturais; Pós-Graduação em História: Património e Projectos Culturais; Formador - Sistema Nacional de Certificação Profissional do IEFP; Mestre em História, Moderna e Contemporânea, especialidade Cidades e Património. É investigador integrado no Centro de Estudos CECHAP. São suas áreas de interesse: História Contemporânea, História da Arquitectura e Urbanismo, História do Património Religioso, História da Industria, História Oral, História Social, Biblioteconomia e Arquivos.

DANIEL ALVES

Coordenador de Estudo
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

alves.r.daniel@gmail.com

 

Academic Qualification

Professor Auxiliar no Departamento de História da FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Tem um doutoramento em História Económica e Social Contemporânea (2010) e um mestrado em História do Século XIX (2001). As suas áreas de interesse são a História Contemporânea, a História Económica e Social, A História Urbana, A História das Revoluções e as Humanidades Digitais. Entre outros, publicou o livro A República atrás do balcão: os Lojistas de Lisboa e o fim da Monarquia (1870-1910), em 2012, e vários artigos em revistas científicas nacionais e estrangeiras, sobretudo relacionados com a História Económica e Social e os SIG aplicados à História.

http://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/pt/ihc/investigadores/item/1125-dralves-pt

VANESSA AMARAL

Technical Assistance
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

vamaral.cechap@gmail.com

 

Academic Qualification

É licenciada (2004) em História Moderna e Contemporânea, pós-graduada (2009) em Património e Projectos Culturais. É investigadora do CECHAP desde 2012 sendo as suas áreas de interesse a História Contemporânea, a História Industrial, a História Urbana, a História do Património e o Património Urbano e Arquitectónico. Desenvolve diferentes tipos de actividades de âmbito cultural no CECHAP, coautora da revista Callipoartes e do Inventário do Património para o SIPA.

RICARDO HIPÓLITO

Technical Assistance
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

rhipolito.cechap@gmail.com

 

Academic Qualification

É licenciado (2007) e mestre (2014) em História Moderna e Contemporânea. É investigador do CECHAP desde 2011 sendo as suas áreas de interesse a História Contemporânea, a História do Turismo, e História Urbana e a História do Património. Publicou, em co-autoria, a publicação A Rota do Mármore do Anticlinal de Estremoz, em 2014.

JULIETA CASTRO

Colaboradora
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

 

Academic Qualification

MARIA JULIETA CASTRO, Enfermeira, aposentada, autodidata em fotografia, tendo frequentada diversas formações em fotografia, colaboradora do projecto PHIM, no levantamento fotográfico..

ANA CARDOSO DE MATOS

Coordinator: industrial arqueology
PORTAL HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE

Contact

anacmatos@mail.telepac.pt

 

Academic Qualification

Professora Auxiliar com agregação no Departamento de História da Escola de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Évora e Vice-presidente do IIFA-Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada da mesma Universidade. Coordena na UÉ o Mestrado Erasmus Mundus TPTI- Techniques, Patrimoine, Territoires de l’Industrie e no centro de investigação CIDEHUS-UÉ coordena a L2- património e diversidade cultural. As suas áreas de interesse são a História e o Património Industriais, a História da Tecnologia e da engenharia e a História Urbana. Publicou vários artigos em revistas científicas nacionais e estrangeiras e, entre outros, os livros Ciência, tecnologia e desenvolvimento industrial no Portugal oitocentista. O caso dos lanifícios do Alentejo (1998), coordenou o livro A Históra da Electricidade. Dos primórdios à segunda Guerra Mundial (2004) e co-editou a obra Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs : entre la formation et l’action/The Quest for a Professional Identity: Engineers between Training and Action (2009).

About

COORDINATOR MESSAGE

The marble industry has always been a periodic activity, strongly influenced by the country’s economic rhythms and by the cadences of economic, social and even cultural downstream.

Wether It was due to the civil and religious architecture, which had their pinnacles and declines throughout the nation and Europe's history, or through funerary art, or even through the investment or disinvestment in the so-called material progress, represented by major public works and transportation, the marble exploitation, the industries that it had risen and the workforce that it created, changed very significantly throughout history.

In this study, the chosen chronological boundaries mediate between the Regeneration and Portugal entrance in the EEC (1850-1986).

The web portal focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the Anticlinal de Estremoz, a geological formation with an abundance of marble stone, covering the municipalities of Borba, Estremoz and Vila Viçosa and that, over time, has always shown an interesting concentration, abundance and quality of raw material, essential for an economically viable industry.

When we set off for this adventure, for about two years, as part of PHIM project (Heritage and Industry History of Marbles), funded by INALENTEJO (ERDF), we found out immediately the main reasons for the lack of historiographical studies on the marble industry: the great dispersion of sources, combined with the difficult access to some funds and also the difficult task of obtaining homogeneous and comparable series, both in terms of timing or geography. Using an industry image, it soon became clear to the authors that it was necessary to go deep into the "well" of the files in order to "cut" a set of "blocks" of sources that lead us off to some historiography "ornament" that does not stay by the mere enunciation or repetition of preconceived ideas.

The dynamics of exploitation and abandonment of the quarries, the industrial heritage that was being generated over time, as well as the environmental impact of industry have led to a number of initiatives, studies and reflections, like the PHIM project, working as a means to raise awareness for political, administrative and economic agents for the need to recover the memory and Alentejo's marble landscape that, more than an economic value, it is a history, it is a culture and it is a heritage that must be preserved and boosted.

We invite all to visit HISTÓRIA DO MÁRMORE WEB PORTAL.

June 30th, 2015
Daniel Alves (IHC-FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

OFFERS

Donation acceptance criteria

CECHAP must thank all individuals and institutions that show interest in donating their bibliographical or documental souces to this project, beeing those donations an important instrument for the development of this colection.

For those who want to make donations, one should submit the donation proposal, in the web portal or at CECHAP archive services

Due to collection manegement, CECHAP reserves the right to appraise the donations, gauging its value, acording to this criteria:

  • Cientific value
  • Historical and social value
  • Conservation state

Both CECHAP and PHIM will notify donators about the decision.

NOTE: CECHAP reserves the right to decline donations, which content is considered not to have value to the colection or does not show the mininal conservation state requested.

 

CONTACTS

Armando Quintas
aquintas.cechap@gmail.com

phim.cechap@gmail.com

Largo D. João IV, n.º 40A
7160-254 Vila Viçosa
268 889 186

ACCESS

All web portal visitor/reador will have access to any available information.

It is also possible to access more information (documents and imags), that are not shown, by submitting registration in the web portal and wait until DIC's direction have accepted the registration.

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WEB PORTAL BULLETIN

The web portal bulletin works as an internal comunication instrument as well as a device to get this page closer to the its users, spreading both PHIM project and DIC Archive work.

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