The 28th anniversary of the Fresco Route is highlighted in the Público newspaper. This August, following our 2026 Rota do Fresco® Open Day, the Público newspaper once again wrote about this hidden beauty in the churches and convents of the Alentejo region, this time (as it has done on other occasions, the first time in 2001!) through the writing of Mara Gonçalves, exploring the opportunity of freshness offered by the natural climate refuges that are the churches made of earth

Alvito is at the Belém Cultural Center , at the invitation of the exhibition 's curators. “ TERRA CRUA ” and the ARQUITERRA project, conceived and developed by Spira. Between In 2022 and 2024 , Spira carried out ARQUITERRA – a Local Sustainability Project through Creative Tourism and Volunteering , focused on the traditional construction techniques of the Alentejo region , with a particular emphasis on the rammed earth technique: Rammed earth workshops, production and docum

A European model that brings together conservator-restorers, architects, international volunteers, and local communities around a shared asset: the cultural heritage that defines us and unites us. What is a Heritage Camp? A Heritage Camp is a form of intervention in built cultural heritage that combines specialised technical work with international volunteer participation. Over a defined period — typically two weeks between June and October — conservator-restorers lead mixed

There are around 34,000 monuments in Portugal with no official protection (cf. Estudo Património em Portugal - Avaliação do Valor Económico e Social ). . This means that any person or entity may do whatever they wish with them; that no institution is responsible for these assets; and that they are not eligible for EU funding programmes that require heritage classification. How, then, can we attend to this heritage, assuming that such a “state of affairs” is clearly unaccepta