Beja: Reopening of religious monuments, considered positive.
The Municipality of Beja took, transiently, the opening, from 1 August, the opening of three religious buildings. Average, per day, They visited the spaces 50 visitors.
Os espaços em causa são a St. Andrew Chapel, Church of Our Lady of Joy and Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, having the authority to replace the process “APT – Land Ports Association”, until we have completed the new legal formalities management.
In his facebook page, President of the Chamber of Beja, states that “In the first 9 days for public enjoyment, religious buildings open the recorded CM Beja the following inflows: St. Andrew Chapel – 73 visitors (open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 13.00), Church of Our Lady of Joy – 125 visitors (open from Tuesday to Saturday from 14.30 to 18.30), Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary – 252 visitors (open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 13.00 e the 14.30 to 18.30). Total: 450 visits, average 50 po visitorsr day”.
In his facebook page, President of the Chamber of Beja, It addresses the issue of management “APT – Land Ports Association”, and the reopening of some closed religious spaces.
At the end of last July, Paul Arsenio, that justified “having inherited a very new C.M.Beja situation, very complex under “APT – Land Ports Association”, in which shares responsibility with the various diocese, with respect to maintenance / opening of some religious character spaces of the city, we can move things begin to be remedied”.
The mayor stated that if “held in early July elections to the new governing bodies of APT” and, while deriving the formalities for installation in legal terms cool, “It was immediately decided to reopen a number of city spaces that had long been closed and that will value – and how – the cultural offer and tourist city”.
The diocese had already made the reopening of the cross leg of the Church and the Cathedral Beja Cathedral and CM Beja passed to ensure transiently opening the remaining spaces. Thes horários da Ermida de Santo André, Church of Our Lady of Joy (na photos) and Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, go be in place by 31 October may be revised from 1 November, date on which the APT to replace the CM Beja at the opening of responsibility of the above identified areas.
The mayor justified at the time, to be important “Enhance and promote Beja”, returning to make available to citizens and visitors “the best that we have to show, It is something for which we fight and we try to find daily solutions, not always easy / possible”.
To finish, Paul maintained that Arsenio “in dialogue with the institutions so that together we can build a County which we increasingly take pride”, finished.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
