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The Municipality of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal) has acquired a set of five paintings, in the 80's, believed to be the portraits of past Mayors, or some other prominent personalities from the county, but their origin and identity have always been at the center of some controversy, and they had never been properly studied.In this article, published in the Boletim Cultural N.º 2, in 2006, we advanced their identity and gathered as much informati...

The death of a childless, unmarried wealthy Portuguese official, in Brazil, in the late 18th century, initiated a judicial process of inheritance that mobilized a considerable amount of relatives for 13 years (1795-1808). These inheritance files, deposited in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo (Lisbon), provide an extraordinary amount of accurate genealogical information and contain transcripts of parish records that have been lost in the...

One of the most important proceedings to emanate from the Council of Trent (1545-63), as part of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, was the decree to keep a thorough register of all baptisms, marriages and burials being performed in every parish. This practice, prevalent in Portugal until 1910, would generate one of the most prolific archives in history: the parish records. Its contents provide a multitude of information that exceeds its geneal...

The elected, or sometimes appointed, municipal representatives (Mayors and Councilors) in the county of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal) for the past 150 years (1855-2005) are presented here in a chronological list compiled from minutes and other documents of the municipal archive.

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The architectural heritage bequeathed to us has been systematically destroyed by the incompetence and corruption of owners, promoters and appointed managers, either through ignorance or to satisfy more immediate and materialistic goals. They have allowed, promoted and executed plans for the destruction, perversion or brutal and unreasonable modernization of this historical and irreplaceable legacy. This article, first presented at the Casa Nob...

The Municipality of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal), created administratively by decree (October 24, 1855) during the Regeneration period as a result of the reforms advocated by the Vintismo Movement in the 1820's, and initiated by Mouzinho da Silveira in 1834, after the abdication of King Michael I, was the desperate attempt of central government to dismantle and replace old heavily entrenched family and local feuds, which had been the basis of ...

This second, revised and enlarged edition, of a rather long Brief Carolingian Bibliography, named to make it sound more humble and therefore less prone to peer criticism, is a list of books on Charlemagne and the Carolingians published in English, Frenc