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Without any registration, it is
supposed that it was built on the following times after the stop
of french officers and soldiers who took part on the Peninsular
Invasions (1808-1810), in the place occupied till then by the
Saint Julian Church. A painting done by a british colonel shows
the church and some houses, containing a legend: Punhete seen from
the left bank of the Tagus.
Several functions had this house: it
was a school, it was the city hall. On the 5th October 1910 the
council administrator announced, from it's varandas, the
proclamation of the Republique to the people who standed in the
place.
It has the same name as the street
Joao Chagas- as recognition of the important role that Joao
Chagas, the politician and journalist performed on the republican
revolution.
Later, the city-hall mooved to a
new building at the Luis de Camoes street, and the Casa Joao
Chagas was used to accomodate families on the superior floors, and
a tavern and a salt store on the ground floor. It was transported
to here by the family Pereira who owned
the building and a fleet of some ships
Showing an accelarated state of
degradation, the Municipality buys it for 400.000 escudos ( 2000
Euros), having reconstructed it and adapted it to a hotel
establishment.
In 2003 a second building, situated
in the number 4 of Joćo Chagas street (8 meters away) joined the
Casa Joao Chagas after reconstructed and adpated by the
Constāncia Municipality.
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