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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Visit the Town Hall - Alpedrinha

The House Chamber of Alpedrinha was built in 1680, five years after the lifting Alpedrinha Village.
The Town Hall is an all singing, with two floors and ground floor, which are divided by a staircase built of granite to the first floor and floor to the exit door at the back, just above the second floor. The facade has projecting balconies with iron railings and on the second floor, center, exists ventana which he was for years a bell. Beside the ventana is the Portuguese coat of arms where one can read the date 1680.

After the extinction of the county in 1855, the House of Representatives was kept busy serving as a court of justice of the peace, school, marching band's rehearsal room, a theater, chain, chicken, wine cellar and even butchers. It was also the jailer's house, which also accumulated the employment of gravedigger.

Currently there is headquartered in the Parish Council, the League of Friends of Alpedrinha (LAA), the Museum of the League and there are rooms where the tests are carried out of choir and orchestra, where he runs the School of Music where he works and recurrent education. It also worked there the House of People.

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