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Heritage
Capela do Livramento (Chapel in Livramento)
Watermill at Atrozela
Casa das Pedras
Excavations in the caves of Alapraia
Head in terracotta. Roman Villa of Alto da Cidreira
Fort in Guincho
House in the Historic Center of Parede
Largo do Livramento
Casa Monsalvat (House Monsalvat). Monte Estoril
Ceramic collected in the Fortress of Nossa Senhora da Luz
Fort of S. Teodósio
Vila Laura. São João do Estoril
Since the mid-80s important exhibitions, publicity and scientific meetings have been organised, accompanied by publications focused on heritage topics, which contributed to the creation of a technical body and of essential knowledge for operating a sustained policy of Heritage preservation.
In the last two decades, the preservation of historic property heritage in Cascais was based on specific Portuguese Cultural Heritage legislation, resorting to a classification tool and, in a way that was very specific of Portugal, to an inventory list. This "originality" assumes greater interest if we consider that it was formalised in the Regulations of the Plano Diretor Municipal (Municipal Master Plan - MMP) published in 1997, even before the consecration of the inventory as a way to protect cultural property, in addition to classification.
The MMP established that the Municipality should develop Inventory Catalogue as the main operational tool to preserve the heritage, firstly because it required the preparation of inventories of heritage and their formal ratification by the competent government bodies and, secondly, because it consecrated a set of very specific standards for preserving inventoried property. Another key aspect of this strategy is the possibility to update all Inventory Catalogues, in accordance with the progressive knowledge of the territory. Therefore, through the MMP, the Municipality of Cascais successfully put into operation the concept of inventoried immoveable property, an objective that the general law then in force had not succeeded in achieving.
Another relevant aspect of the MMP was the creation on the Spatial Planning Charter of the category of Historic Urban Space Class , to which also corresponds an Inventory-Catalogue (associated with the concept of “set"). These aspects were as important as, or more important than, the respective formulation which arose at a time when the county of Cascais, like other counties in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, was being submitted, since the late 70's, to an urbanization process with vast consequences for the future of the territory, both in terms of planning and loss of character.
The inventory was therefore created gradually, covering the Architectural Heritage , which includes religious, military, modernist and summer architecture, as well as Historic "Quintas" (Estates), Archaeological architecture and Historic Urban Spaces and also Unique Elements of Relevant Interest and Public Art.
In 2004, the Municipality of Cascais acquired an integrated management system for cultural property and moveable property which not only has allowed the systematization and better management of the inventory management process, but also the association of an essential tool: the geographic information system. Part of the content of the inventory will be available to the public online shortly.
