Proposta de valorização de um sistema patrimonial: Enoretiro de S. Pedro das Águias

Abstract

This Dissertation has as its object of study the old cistercian Monastery of S. Pedro das Águias, implanted in the Távora Valley, in Tabuaço. Since the extinction of the religious orders in 1834, this property has gone through several owners, suffering a fire and several transformations of which no documentary records remain. The work aims to deepen the study on the Monastery of S. Pedro das Águias, as well as to develop a proposal of valorization of the monastic ensemble, framed in a project of touristic and territorial development of a heritage system: "Vale do Távora". Due to the lack of information available on the old monastic ensemble, the methodology used focused on the crossing of "direct" (the building) and "indirect" (textual, cartographic, iconographic and photographic) sources, which served to support different surveys, studies and analyses. Thus, using drawing as a research tool, some interpretative hypotheses on the evolution, configuration and functional organisation of the old monastic complex were drawn up, which supported the development of an intervention proposal. Starting from a contemporary understanding of heritage, in close relationship with communities and territory, a proposal for an Enoretiro is presented, seeking to value differentiating elements of the identity of the monastic complex, and creating parallels with cistercian spatiality through its reinterpretation. In this way, the project strategy proposes the recovery of the architectural integrity of the ensemble, through a contemporary intervention based on the respect and continuity of its historical memory, as well as its transmission to future generations.