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Anos 1970
The palace still intact
Four film stills show the palace outside and inside: the façade with its turrets, a room and the tiled fireplace.
Museum · Room 5
1975 and after, 1975–1976
The occupation, the cooperative and the expropriation, through documents and images of the time.
Each document has its image, what it says in a few lines, the original passage and where it is kept. Quotations keep the spelling of the document.
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1975–1976
The cooperative in the fields
On 23 April 1975 the estate is occupied by workers from the neighbouring villages, who form a cooperative. The photographs show the pruning of the vines and an evening gathering in the palace on 23 January 1976.
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1976
The expropriation order
By Ministerial Order no. 305/76 of 17 May, the Quinta da Torre Bela, of 1,436.78 hectares, is expropriated from the heirs of D. Caetano Segismundo de Bragança. The property is returned in 1985.
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1976
The Mafra legend, in writing
The cooperative’s first-anniversary booklet, of 23 April 1976, is the oldest known written record of the tradition linking the wall to the building of Mafra. The archives do not confirm it: the wall was already under construction in 1687 and Mafra only began in 1717.
«foi construído à custa de muita pedra, materiais e mão de obra destinados à construção do Convento de Mafra»