According to a notice published today in Diário da República, from 2025 Ponte de Lima will celebrate a municipal holiday on March 4, the date of granting the charter by Queen D. Teresa almost 900 years ago.
According to the notice, “from 2025, when the 900th anniversary of Ponte de Lima will be celebrated, March 4” will become a municipal holiday, “replacing the Tuesday after Feiras Novas.”
“It is only logical that the municipal holiday is celebrated on the day of Ponte de Lima, March 4th, even to commemorate the celebrations we celebrate every year, and especially in 2025, when we celebrate the 900th anniversary of the granting of the charter. queen D. Teresa,” Ponte de Lima Mayor Vasco Ferras told Luce on Tuesday.
The mayor of CDS-PP added that the move to a portable municipal holiday, which is celebrated “since always on the Tuesday after Feiras Novas, which takes place on the second weekend of September, has already been an expression of will demonstrated by the population and the various parliamentary groups of the municipal assembly.”
According to the mayor of Ponte de Lima, the municipal holiday was celebrated after the festivities of the municipality “to accompany the rest of the population”, after “several days of festivities”.
The proposal to change the date of the municipal holiday was unanimously approved by the Chamber and the Municipal Assembly.
Vasco Ferras said that scientific, honorary and subsequent commissions are being created to prepare the celebration of the 900th anniversary of the founding of Ponte de Lima in the area of Viana do Castelo on March 4, 2025.
“Events are being planned that will take place over the course of three years to adequately celebrate the 900th anniversary of Ponte de Lima,” he stressed.
Vasco Ferras said that the presence of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister had already been confirmed, “who have committed themselves to high patronage of the celebrations.”
The guest list also includes the President of the Assembly of the Republic, the Minister of Culture, former mayors of Ponte de Lima and others.
Cultural events, book releases, concerts, animation are some of the initiatives that are being prepared.