The Porto City Council is negotiating the purchase of the bottom of the house where Almeida Garrett was born, to install a pole of the liberalism museum. The president of the municipality, Rui Moreira, revealed that sellers are available to sell part of the building.
The president ofRui Moreira, said the municipality is trying to buy the bottom of the house where writer Almeida Garrett was born, with a view to installing a pole from the liberalism museum.
“What we are trying is to keep the bottom of the building and allow it to promote housing at the top of the building, because the vertical museum is not very much sense,” Rui Moreira said at the extraordinary session of the municipal assembly that took place Monday night.
According to the independent mayor, The municipality continues “trying to acquire, by negotiation”, the fractions, with a view to installing a pole of the liberalism museum.
“We have been negotiating, we have already made an evaluation and now have a second external assessment,” he said, revealing that “sellers are available to […] Sell a part of the building “, to which it said that a hotel was not planned.
In mid -November, during a meeting of the Executive, the mayor of Porto clarified that the external evaluation requested by the municipality indicated that Almeida Garrett’s house was worth about 1.5 million euros.
A week before, the advanced that The writer’s house had been on sale by the Porto Real Estate Metro3, and according to the real estate, the lot had a request for prior information (PIP) approved for “Apartments and Commerce Buildingwith 13 fractions, Also counting on 29 -bedroom charm hotel architectural design and a restaurant, which allows a diversification of investment approach. “
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This Tuesday, Rui Moreira also pointed out that the fifth Villar D’Allen, which in the recent territorial hits with Gondomar returned to the territory of the municipality of Porto, “It is clearly, in fact, the most important in terms of liberal wars and beyond, and has an absolutely extraordinary collection”.
“We can have both. We can have both poles and between these two poles do, in the background, what is the route of liberalism in Porto,” he suggested, also rejecting that the liberalism museum has “interactive things” or “whether one of those of glass lid in which people put a hand.”
The mayor was responsible for an intervention by the municipal deputy of PS Rui Lage, that in addition to marking the current lack of the liberalism museum, he questioned “the relevance” of the future museum of convergences to Portonot placing “the museum merit” of the same “nor the reputation of the Távora Sequeira Pinto collection”.
“Porto does not yet have a true museum of the city, a museum in the city worthy of that name – although it will finally have it with the recovery of the palace of São João Novo,” he noted, also noted that Porto “watched a little impaired and serene to the closing or dismantling of the Press Museum” and “does not have its industry museum and has the collection of the Industry Museum.”
Regarding the Industry Museum, Rui Moreira said that The municipality has “ready the Cace project [Centro de Apoio à Criação de Empresas]”Where the museum will be installed, which will also have” a wing for the Press Museum. “
“The reason why we still can’t start the works is because it has been given, as you know,“, that according to Rui Moreira did not return the empty building, but with an occupant “It is no longer a small company and understands that it does not have to vacate the space.”
