Casa Fernando Pessoa (, "Fernando Pessoa House") is a

cultural center A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored, or activist-run. Asia * ...

Campo de Ourique Campo de Ourique () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in the historic center of Lisbon, Campo de Ourique is east of Alcântara, north of Estrela, west of Santo António, and south of Campo ...

of Lisbon,

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History

It was created in honor of the poet

Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century an ...

, and conceived as a "home of poetry". It is located in the building where Pessoa lived between 1920 and 1935. The cultural center opened on November 30, 1993.

External links

Casa Fernando Pessoa
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