Articles and News
Cláudio Torres starts to name the Mértola Museum
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Cláudio Torres – National ‘Memory and Identity’ Award 2020/2021
On 22 July 2021, Doctor Cláudio Torres, Director of the Archaeological Site of Mértola and the Mértola Museum received the National ‘Memory and Identity’ Award, awarded by the Portuguese Association of Municipalities with Historic Centres, at the official ceremony marking the National Day of Historic Centres, in Tavira.
Baptistérios de Mértola.
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Uncovering Portugalʹs Islamic roots. Where Christians pray facing Mecca
Archaeologists in Mertola have spent the last 40 years looking for traces of Portugalʹs Islamic past. What they found shows that Islam is not alien to Europe and has in fact deeply influenced Portuguese history and culture.
Mértola: Vatican distinguishes Archaeological Field
The Archaeological Site of Mértola, Alentejo, He received the award this year from the Vatican Pontifical Academies, dedicated to the early centuries of Christianity, by archaeological campaigns in recent years and the “extraordinary results”.
Mértola revela o segundo batistério paleocristão
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Pieces of Islamic art from Mértola will be exhibited at the Louvre Museum
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1991 Pessoa Prize Laureate - Cláudio Torres
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Islamic Civilization: The Last Great Mediterranean Civilization
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