“We started our day to receive, and we are very aware of this, the visit of Minister of Culture, João Soares, who is a man of books, which is a man sensitive to the culture and that comes on purpose the Port to open the door [of Lello Bookshop] with us, after 110 years at ten in the morning on time, “he told Lusa José Manuel Lello, administrator Lello Bookshop and great-grandson of the founder that space.
The Lello, the oldest bookstore in the city of Porto, opened in 1906 and classified as a monument of public interest in 2013, celebrates a century and a decade from 10 am on Wednesday, with “day open to the city,” where entries are again free for a day for visitors, informs the management.
Considered the most beautiful bookstores in the world by some international press as the newspaper “The Guardian” that raised in 2008 to the most beautiful third in the world and CNN television station in 2014, the Lello will offer also several copies of “The Tear” Guerra Junqueiro and various artistic moments, a theatrical performance highlighting with actors to make reborn writers Florbela Espanca and Camilo Castelo Branco to meet for the first time to go to congratulate Lello .
The Lello Bookshop, whose entries began to be paid from July 2015 through a “voucher” deductible books, will also give the first “thousand visitors (…) An old photographs collectible bookstore, taken at its opening in 1906, “reads the statement sent to the media.
varied Portuguese Sweets, like balls of Viana do Castelo Berlin, Santo Tirso Jesuits and cream puffs Alcobaça, will also be on the menu gifts to offer Lello visitors in anniversary day, as well as a port wine goblet.
The Symphonic Band Portuguese will act on the famous stairs of the bookstore with music your saxophone quartet and to end the festivities of the day, the Brotherhood of the Clerics offers Lello and the city a concert soprano Fabiana Magalhães and Rui Soares in the body.
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