Delfim Ferreira (13 December 1888 – 24 September 1960) was an important Portuguese

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, born in the town of Riba d'Ave, Vila Nova de Famalição. He was the son of the great Portuguese industrial

Narciso Ferreira Narciso Ferreira (7 July 1862 – 23 March 1933) was a Portuguese entrepreneur in the north of Portugal (Riba d’Ave, in Vila Nova de Famalição). He is considered the great founder of the textile industry in Portugal and responsible for the ...

, who, from a small manual mill, built the largest textile enterprise that existed in

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in the second half of the nineteenth century. Educated at the Royal and Imperial School of Reichenberg, Delfim Ferreira, in the 1940s, intended to build a shopping mall in

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. He expanded his business into other economic sectors, including hydroelectric power and civil construction, contributing to the development of Vale do Ave and providing employment to thousands of workers. He was awarded the grade of Commander of the Order of Merit (1930), Commander of the Military Order of Christ (1933), Grand Officer of the Order of Industrial Merit (1948), the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (1951), and the Gold Medal of the City of

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. He was also the owner of the Casa de Serralves, now a house-museum belonging to the

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, where he lived until his death from

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in 1960, at a time when he was considered the richest man in Portugal. He is buried in the Cemetery of Prado do Repouso in

Tributes

* Delfim Ferreira Externato (non-boarding school), Riba de Ave, founded in 1962 and closed in 2019 * Bust of Commander Delfim Ferreira,

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, inaugurated in 1970 * Delfim Ferreira Barracks, Peso da Régua Fire Department * Delfim Ferreira Street,

Vila Nova de Famalicão Vila Nova de Famalicão (), also known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese town in the Braga District and the sub-region of Ave (intermunicipal community), Vale do Ave. The population of ''Vila Nova'' was created in 1205 with the charter given by the K ...

* Delfim Ferreira Street,

* Etc.

External links

Predial Ferreira

References

People from Vila Nova de Famalicão 20th-century Portuguese businesspeople 1888 births 1960 deaths {{Portugal-business-bio-stub