The district of Lisbon felt very early the need of keeping the most important documentation about the city and its inhabitants (registers, royal charters, sentences, contracts, among many others). The diligence of the City Council of Lisbon is shown in the concretization of the computing the documents with image association, in promoting several cultural initiatives (publishing, exhibitions, science-culture events, workshops, debates, conferences).
Library that assembles about 26 thousand volumes of the work of Dulce Ferrão, important journalist, writer and historian. This cultural space also has a complete bibliographic selection about contemporary Portugal, with special attention to the history of the 1st Republic, Estado Novo and Colonial War. Other works of reference about themes such as the French Revolution, the world wars or the great classics of national and foreign literature can also be consulted here.
Bibliography and periodic publishing of casa pia; entertaining and multimedia materials. Works of Luz Soriano. Olisipography, History, Art, Patrimony; Exact and Human sciences; Children’s literature, fiction and poetry.
Monographs, periodic publishing, press-cuttings, photographs, posters, scripts, adverting material and other documents about cinema. Thematic related to circus, theatre, photography and television.
Fine exemplar of the Architectonic Patrimony that has a museum of Sacred art, an art gallery, a cloister for marriages and other events and also meeting-halls.
