The Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, announced Tuesday that the parliament will open its doors to the citizens on the feast day of October 5 for the celebration of the 1910 Republican Revolution.
In a video message, Augusto Santos Silva says that next Wednesday, on the occasion of the celebration of the Republic, the parliament will be open between 3 and 6 pm.
“This is the first time this has happened, but it won’t be the last time, because these moments when the parliament building opens for those who want to visit this, which is their home, are very important,” said the president of the parliament. Assembly of the Republic.
On Wednesday afternoons, those visiting the parliament can see the original of the 1911 Constitution of the First Republic, as well as the proposals presented for the bust of the Republic during this period of national history.
“And you will be able to enjoy and see the exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of our first Liberal Constitution” of 1822, adds Augusto Santos Silva in his message.
After the creation of the First Republic, on the site where a statue of King D. Carlos I had previously been placed, a bust of the Republic was placed in 1911 by the sculptor João da Silva.
The bust was replaced in 1916 by a full-length statue of the Republic, by Anjos Teixeira, which still stands in the Sala das Sessões.
The models of the competition currently open in front of the statue of the Republic of the Great Assembly Hall will be exhibited in the corridors of the Parliament.
Also this Wednesday, at 6 p.m., in the Senate Hall of the Assembly of the Republic, a formation of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Algarve will give a concert, which is free of charge.
A photo exhibition of the Joshua Benoliel collection is also on display in the Parliament.
Photographer and journalist of the early 20th century, Joshua Benoliel portrayed national realities in the first two decades of this century, and several of his photographs, which are part of the Parliamentary Historical Archive, will be exhibited in the main hall of the Edit.
One of them, displaying the proclamation of the first president of the republic, Manuel de Arriaga, on the balcony of the Palácio de São Bento on August 24, 1911, will be displayed on a giant screen in the atrium of the balcony of the Salão nobre.
Source: DN
