On 22 and 23 February, the cities of Lisbon and Vila Nova de Gaia will host the public presentation of the first Encyclopaedia of the Romanesque in Portugal.

Published by the Fundación Santa María la Real del Patrimonio Histórico, with the collaboration of the Fundación Ramón Areces, this work brings together, in three volumes, a set of 294 entries on the artistic movement that reigned in Portugal and the rest of Europe between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Romanesque.

A research project produced by 24 authors, coordinated by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, with the support of other organisations, such as the Route of the Romanesque, in terms of the photographic collection.

The work is part of the monumental Encyclopaedia of the Romanesque in the Iberian Peninsula, in which 3,000 specialists have collaborated to catalogue more than 9,000 Romanesque testimonies in 58 published volumes.

The first public presentation of the Encyclopaedia of the Romanesque in Portugal took place in Spain on 6 November.

In Portugal, the two presentation sessions, with free admission, are scheduled for the El Corte Inglês premises, on the 22nd and 23rd, at 6.30pm, in Lisbon and Vila Nova de Gaia.