Beja: Municipal Assembly today, approves Municipal Merit Medal.
The Development Association Regional Land Ports (APT) It is one of the institutions to which was proposed allocation of Municipal Merit Medal 2017. The decision is now ratified at the meeting of the Municipal Assembly of Beja.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN) the Portas do Território Regional Development Association (APT) It is one of the institutions to which was approved at the last meeting of the Municipality of Beja, realizada a 19 April, the award “unanimously secret ballot awarding medals to the identified entities submitting to the Municipal Assembly for final ratification”, according to the minutes published on the municipality's website.
The Beja Municipal Assembly takes place today, day 26 April 2017, by 18.00 hours, in the Main Hall of the Civil former Government building approval of the proposal is one of the meeting points.
A “Land Ports Association”, It was established in March 2008, and resulted from the combined efforts of the Municipality of Beja and the Department of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Diocese of Beja, aiming “promote the protection and enhancement of monuments in the historic city center”. The APT tem, the fundamental objectives, recover emblematic buildings Bejense heritage and make them accessible to the public.
Along source connected to APT, They were rehabilitated in the city of Beja St. Andrew Chapel, the Church of the Foot of the Cross, the old Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary and finally the Cathedral, which had an initial budget of 1,5 million and €, which will have been spent less about 300 thousand euros, revealed our interlocutor.
The same source assured LN that the recent decision by the Bishop of Beja to extinguish the Department of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Diocese of Beja, in no way affects the continuity of “Land Ports Association”, it has among other, as institutional Beja associated, City Hall, a Diocese, Holy House of Mercy and the Alentejo Tourism.
It is recalled that in 2001, the Department of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the Diocese of Beja, He received the City-Grade Medal of Merit Silver, awarded by the City Council.
When it was possible to determine two other institutions, a Beja and another in a rural village, They will also be on the list of entities to be awarded other medals.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
