Historian Peter Booker, co-founder of the Algarve History Association (AHA), will present a lecture on Afonso Costa – a man during his lifetime as much loved as he was hated.
Costa was a foundling, not acknowledged by his birth parents until he was 10 years old. Trained as a lawyer, he soon became a leading light in the Republican Movement. An implacable foe of both the monarchy and the Catholic Church, he was among the founding fathers of the Portuguese Republic as we know it today.
During the stormy years of the First Republic, he led Portugal’s participation in the Great War.
These presentations will take place in Lagoa Municipal Library (Tuesday, January 27, at 6pm) and in the Tavira Municipal Library (Friday, January 30, at 11am). These sessions are free to attend.
