Bragança in the Contemporary Age (1820-2012)

The project “Bragança in the Contemporary Age (1820-2012)” aimed at analysing the administrative evolution and the demographic, economic, social and cultural structures of that city, as well as the political reality, heritage and the transformations of the urban space, from the liberal revolution of 1820 up to present time.

Despite the works developed up to today on the History of the City of Bragança, the truth is that there was not a History of Bragança that in a consequent, systematic and thorough way described the evolution of its past, within the scope of a national and urban History that is richer, more complex, more problematizing, achieving a historical reading and describing its originality and authenticity in the field of political history, administrative institutions, demographic, social and economic strategies, its elites and the several positions served in the city, the relations between the city and the countryside, and the evolution and renovation of the urban space of Bragança.

Coordinators - Fernando de Sousa, Jaime Ferreira-Alves and Alexandre Rodrigues