Agenda Municipal / Diverse Launch of the book: “Famalicão through its toponymy”
Wed 04 Jan
Casa do Território | 18h30
“Famalicão through its toponymy”, with research and texts by João Afonso Machado and illustrations by David Vieira de Castro.
This work, edited by Ediçoes Húmus, with the editorial support of City Council of Vila Nova de Famalicão, joins the collection entitled “Vila Nova de Famalicão Library: Memory and Identity”, of the responsibility of the City Hall, which already includes the work "Casas Nobres Famalicenses (or what remains of them)", by the same authors.
As suggested in the preface of the work, signed by Alcino Monteiro, "How many of us have wondered: Who was Adriano Pinto Basto? What event occurred on September 28th, so important for Vila Nova de Famalicão? Why Alameda dos Bargos or Rua de Freião? Why José Estêvão or José Casimiro da Silva? Where can I find this street, square or square? The answer is, now, on the turn of one of the pages of this work of simple writing and easy reading, amazingly illustrated, materialized with the sensitivity of two famalicenses that, it is never too much to mention, love this land, entrusted by the King D. Sancho I, on July 1, 1205, to 40 settlers, to develop it, making it laborious, enterprising, prosperous and welcoming, an inheritance that we should all honour, seeking to know even better and more Famalicão through its toponymy".
This work now makes available to researchers and to those interested in Famalicão's historiography the compilation, in a single edition, of the study on the several Famalicenses arteries, in the form of a road map in a Famalicão tour. In the opening text by João Afonso Machado, the author says, "I have thus designed twelve routes, starting from the centre to the periphery, from artery to artery, with frequent cross-references that I hope will prevent the tour from being carried out without confusion. At the end, an onomastic index gathers all the toponymy with an indication, in each one, of the route in which it is mentioned and the number that was attributed to it".
In the words of the author of the illustrations, David Vieira de Castro, "It is out of these paradoxes, out of these adventures, that this book is made, of which I am so proud to sign, even if only lightly, brush in hand... That is why each drawing has a story, which I invite the reader to try to decipher in the trace that I lend him here".
The work will be on sale on the day of its presentation and can later be purchased at the Municipal Bookshop, located in the Casa do Território.
“Famalicão through its toponymy”, with research and texts by João Afonso Machado and illustrations by David Vieira de Castro.
This work, edited by Ediçoes Húmus, with the editorial support of City Council of Vila Nova de Famalicão, joins the collection entitled “Vila Nova de Famalicão Library: Memory and Identity”, of the responsibility of the City Hall, which already includes the work "Casas Nobres Famalicenses (or what remains of them)", by the same authors.
As suggested in the preface of the work, signed by Alcino Monteiro, "How many of us have wondered: Who was Adriano Pinto Basto? What event occurred on September 28th, so important for Vila Nova de Famalicão? Why Alameda dos Bargos or Rua de Freião? Why José Estêvão or José Casimiro da Silva? Where can I find this street, square or square? The answer is, now, on the turn of one of the pages of this work of simple writing and easy reading, amazingly illustrated, materialized with the sensitivity of two famalicenses that, it is never too much to mention, love this land, entrusted by the King D. Sancho I, on July 1, 1205, to 40 settlers, to develop it, making it laborious, enterprising, prosperous and welcoming, an inheritance that we should all honour, seeking to know even better and more Famalicão through its toponymy".
This work now makes available to researchers and to those interested in Famalicão's historiography the compilation, in a single edition, of the study on the several Famalicenses arteries, in the form of a road map in a Famalicão tour. In the opening text by João Afonso Machado, the author says, "I have thus designed twelve routes, starting from the centre to the periphery, from artery to artery, with frequent cross-references that I hope will prevent the tour from being carried out without confusion. At the end, an onomastic index gathers all the toponymy with an indication, in each one, of the route in which it is mentioned and the number that was attributed to it".
In the words of the author of the illustrations, David Vieira de Castro, "It is out of these paradoxes, out of these adventures, that this book is made, of which I am so proud to sign, even if only lightly, brush in hand... That is why each drawing has a story, which I invite the reader to try to decipher in the trace that I lend him here".
The work will be on sale on the day of its presentation and can later be purchased at the Municipal Bookshop, located in the Casa do Território.
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