Please be informed that a call for tenders is being launched by the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) to submit project proposals on Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia). 

Opens on September 21, at the Museum S. Roque, the exhibition «Under Our Lady's Mantle. Collections of Russian Art in Portugal», which raises the veil over a hitherto unknown artistic heritage: the collections of Russian icons in Portuguese museums and collections. 

Opening time change: 6:00 pm (not 5:00 pm, as previously announced)

The board of Artis - IHA, research center of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon expresses its satisfaction at the recent appointment of the National Palace of Mafra as a World Heritage Site and is pleased to have been able to contribute to this magnificent result with the scientific research of "AquaMafra. The water in the Palace of Mafra: Looks over 300 years of history" project, with Dr. Ana Patrícia Rodrigues Alho as responsible researcher. This project received financial support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and other institutions associated with the work. The investigation has been publicly lauded, which honors us very much.

With the first Portuguese contacts with Sri Lanka in the early sixteenth century, Catholic missionaries came in their quest to convert local populations. The loss of the island to the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century began a black period for Sinhalese Catholics, hard-hounded and left to their fate. At the end of the seventeenth century, Father José Vaz, from the Oratory Congregation of Saint Philip Néri, made his way to Sri Lanka and took on the mission of spiritually assisting the Catholic communities of the island, founding countless missions and churches, supported by others oratorian Goan.