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EUROPEAN HERITAGE CONGRESS 2012, LISBON 30 MAY - 2 JUNE 

 

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PROGRAMME

 

WEDNESDAY 30 MAY 

 

09.30 - 12.30 / 15.00 - 17.00

COUNCIL MEETING 

Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva – Salão Nobre, Alfama

10.00 - 17.00

HERITAGE VISIT IN LISBON 

  • Museum of the Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva
  • Lisbon Cathedral
  • National Tiles Museum (Museu Nacional do Azulejo)

19.00 - 20.30
WELCOME RECEPTION 
Palácio de Belém, residence of the President of the Republic of Portugal (Laureate of a EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award)


THURSDAY 31 MAY

 

9.30 - 13.00

PRESENTATIONS BY THE 2012 AWARD LAUREATES 

Museu do Oriente

14.30 - 16.00

WESSEL DE JONGE PUBLIC LECTURE 

Museu do Oriente

17.00 - 19.00

VISIT OF THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE OF SINTRA

19.00 - 21.00
BUFFET RECEPTION offered by the City of Sintra 

Pálacio da Vila


FRIDAY 1 JUNE


09.00 - 13.00

EUROPA NOSTRA FORUM  "Saving Europe's Endangered Heritage" - in cooperation with the Centro Nacional de Cultura and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Auditorium 2

19.00 - 21.00

EUROPEAN HERITAGE AWARDS CEREMONY co-hosted by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, and Maestro Plácido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra. 

Also marking the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention.

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (World Heritage Site and Laureate of an Europa Nostra Award)

21.30 - 23.00

BUFFET DINNER

Cloister of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

 


SATURDAY 2 JUNE

 

11.00 - 12.00

A short concert on the recently restored six organs of the Basilica, winner of an EU/EN Award 2012

 

12.00 - 14.00

EUROPA NOSTRA GENERAL ASSEMBLY (for President, Board, Council and EN Members only). 

Library of the Monastery at Mafra

15.00 - 16.30

GUIDED VISIT OF THE PALACE AND MONASTERY including a short concert on the six organs of the Basílica
In parallel

13.45 - 20.00

INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE EXCURSION
EXCURSION to various INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE sites around Lisbon (incl. lunchbox)

19.15

VISIT of "CASAS DAS HISTORIAS - PAULA REGO" MUSEUM at Cascais

20.30 

VISIT OF THE CASCAIS CIDADELA PALACE AND CLOSING DINNER hosted by the City of Cascais

Cidadela de Cascais


POST-CONGRESS EXCURSION AND TOUR

SUNDAY 3 JUNE

 

09.30 - 22.00

FULL DAY EXCURSION to the ALCOBAÇA and BATALHA monasteries and the village of ÓBIDOS


SUNDAY 3 JUNE - WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 

 

09.30

4 DAYS POST-CONGRESS TOUR

Visiting the historic towns of COIMBRA, PORTO, GUIMARÃES and BRAGA, as well as a number of privately owned quintas and historic houses, and lodging at the historical Pousada at Porto. The tour ends at Porto Airport on 6 June at 15.00 hrs.