Beja: Heritage Defense Association recovers and launches community oven.
More than three decades after ruin and abandonment, It was inaugurated today by the Heritage Defense Association Beja (AdpBeja), the old community oven Aunt Bia Gadelha, that power back to bake bread, the heads and legs of lamb and pork tenderloin.
In Beja Historic Center, one of the streets leading into the Largo do Lidador, where they stand the Castle and the Cathedral, located that it was the only Community city oven. People kneaded bread in the house and then the Ti Bia Gadelha boiled, charging a tithe, in kind.
Now, the old oven has been recovered thanks to the perseverance AdpBeja, and collaborations of the House, that capitalized on the technical monitoring of the work, performed by workers in the Greater Santiago Parish of St. John the Baptist Union and.
At the beginning of the year, a solidarity show, where they attended, António Zambujo, Virgin Suta, Jorge Serafim Ferreira and Bruno, among others, It could raise important funds for the work.
This whole process was only possible, because the brothers Vera and Pedro Torres, both doctors in Lisbon, They donated the oven and the house next to the Beja Heritage Defense Association. The great promoter of the project was Florival Baiôa, 67 year old, historian and president of AdpBeja, who recalled that "can once again smell the wood burning rock rose in the oven and recover the taste of baked bread and old fashioned roast beef" fired.
The historian explained that "opens up a ninth heritage phase in the restoration in Portugal, which they recover the castles and churches of the great heroes ", adding that in Beja promoted the restoration of the "heritage of the heroes of the people, do everyday popular ", concluded.
Florival Baiôa, He made it clear that "there is a person interested in exploring space, paying a symbolic rent to the association, because so that the public can also enjoy the oven at low prices ", finished.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
