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The Interpretative Centre for Lisbon’s eastern parishes of Marvila and Beato is set to open at
Marvila’s Municipal Library near the conclusion of the city’s H2020 ROCK Project.1 The two
partners involved in the venture are Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML), Lisbon’s municipality,
and Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS-UL), the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of
Lisbon.
In the creation of this Centre lies the hope of tying the loose ends and strings of a battered
territory: for centuries the remote dwellings of the religious orders, or setting for the riverfront
leisurely summers of the aristocracy, from the mid-19th century Marvila and Beato were
suddenly engulfed in the rapid change brought about by industrialization. Railroads cut the land,
massive buildings emerged and even the Tagus was conquered, with continuous embankments
for warehouses and ever-growing port activity.
2 By then, the population had expanded almost
nine fold, arriving in droves from rural Portugal, and now tightly confined in the capital; housing
was built erratically and hastily, mostly with poor conditions, with large shanty towns emerging
in the area from the mid-1950s. From the 1980s onwards, when most factories were closed,
some went away, others stayed amongst the wreckage, now accompanied by the mounting
units of social housing built in the hinterland (known as Chelas) from the end of the 1960s. This
had been Marvila and Beato’s reality for the last four decades: the greater part of Lisboans could
not have traced them on a map, others would not find a reason to do so.
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Margarida Reis e Silva (2020). The Interpretative Centre of Marvila and Beato. Memorandum. Lisboa: ROCK (Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities). Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44492