SEASONAL TOURS | 1 NIGHT AND 1 DAY
RESISTANCE IN AGRARIAN R EFORM:
FROM BALEIZÃO TO THE AIVADOS COMMUNITY
2024 | APRIL: 19 (NIGHT) AND 20 (FULL DAY)
In April, the month of Freedom, let's take a trip to the difficulties and achievements of the Alentejo plains. From the Estado Novo to Democracy, we get to know this reality through the places where the people organized, resisted, perished and celebrated.
In the municipality of Beja, Baleizão is a reminder of the precariousness and inequality caused by seasonal unemployment and the lack of alternatives in the landowning Alentejo. The murder of Catarina Eufémia in the 1950s illustrates the resistance of agricultural workers and the revolutionary propensity of Alentejans. It heralded an organizational capacity that would later be projected in the collective occupations and demonstrations during the Reforma Agrária of 1975.
Castro Verde has also left us many stories to tell: in Aivados, the land has belonged to the people since the 16th century. The land usurped during the Estado Novo was returned to the people of Aivados on April 20, 1975, in a demonstration of popular strength that is celebrated every year with a walk followed by a community lunch with the President of the People's Association. In Almeirim and Entradas it is now possible to see the day-to-day life that put all this political action into context: a Estado Novo-style school, with a slate board and desks, and a museum that bears witness to rural life, where 20th century farming techniques and machinery are explored.
Today, these lands are worked in different ways and are owned by new economic agents: we also seek to learn about the history of the land in the Alentejo from these protagonists. We therefore set out to walk backwards, from the present day to the 1950s, from the new modernized agriculture to the murder of Catarina Eufémia. Without “parti pris”, in the year of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Democracy in Portugal.
Themes:
Resistance during the Estado Novo, Catarina Eufémia, April 25, Reforma Agrária, Salazarist education.
Days and length:
1 night and 1 day, over a distance of 150km.
Territories:
Beja, Baleizão, Aivados, Almeirim and Entradas.
Includes:
Dinner on the first day, lunch and snack on the second day, accompaniment by a specialized heritage interpreter, performance of cante alentejano, transport throughout the route, VAT at the rate in force.
From €????.00€
1 night and 1 day
19 and 20
April
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ROUTE
Day 1 – Beja and Baleizão
Meeting point in Beja, at Jardim do Bacalhau, at the end of the day. Continue by bus to Baleizão, the emblematic site of Catarina Eufémia's murder. We pass by the memorial and have dinner at Sociedade Filarmónica ??? site of ???...
Day 2 – Aivados, Almeirim and Entradas
Departure towards the municipality of Castro Verde. First stop in Aivados, a village that has been living under a community regime since the 16th century. Participation in the annual walk commemorating the moment when the community lands were returned to the people of Aivados, on April 20, 1975, passing by the memorial and crossing the montado lands, in a moment of contemplation of the beauty of the Alentejo countryside and conversation with the people of Aivados.
On the way back, visit the museum, where the moment of the restitution of community lands was immortalized, as well as the entire history of the village, from its emergence, to the usurpation of the lands, and up to the present day.
This will be followed by the annual lunch organized by the Aivados People's Association, also commemorating the resumption of land after April 25th.
In the afternoon, we will visit the old Almeirim school-museum, which is organized and decorated according to Salazarist standards. We will then continue to Entradas, where we will visit the Rurality Museum to visit the permanent exhibition about the agrarian reality of the Estado Novo period and a temporary exhibition about female resistance.
End of the day at the museum, in a tavern atmosphere, with regional snacks and the sound of female Alentejo singing.
CONDITIONS
Program to be carried out with a minimum of ??? people;
Support in booking accommodation;
Prices per person;
The reservation will only be valid after payment of the total or 30% of the program value;
Reservations up to ??? days in advance.
INCLUDES
Entrances to the museum centers of Aivados, Almeirim and Entradas;
Participation in the commemorative walk in Aivados;
Alentejo singing performance on the second day;
Dinner on the first day;
Lunch on the second day;
Speedboat for dinner on the second day;
Accompaniment by a specialized heritage interpreter;
Transportation during the route described;
Personal accident insurance;
VAT at the current rate.
DOES NOT INCLUDE
Transportation to the meeting point;
Meals not mentioned in the program;
Personal expenses;
Accommodation.
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