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The Mayors of Ponte de Lima (1822-2020)

This research project aimed to produce the biographies of the Mayors of Ponte de Lima from the beginning of Liberalism in Portugal – specifically, with the election of the first Mayor under the new legislative framework – up to the present day. The project sought to understand their actions leading the Municipality and trace the evolution of the legislative framework related to local government in Contemporary Portugal, within which the different Mayors of this Municipality carried out their functions.

In 2021, a two-volume work with over a thousand pages was published with the research results.

Funding: Municipality of Ponte de Lima

Coordination: Fernando de Sousa and Manuel Pires Ribeiro

Duration: 2019-2021