“The Fernão Mendes Pinto Secondary School represents a continuation of the Almada Section of the Liceu D. João de Castro, created in 1965, which would give rise to the Liceu Nacional de Almada, autonomous from the 1972/73 school year onwards. The facilities were located in the city center, in Praça S. João Baptista, in a very large space, currently occupied by the Romeu Correia Municipal Forum Complex. Over many years, as a high school, it was the only school in the municipality to offer the complementary course that gave direct access to Universities.
Still called Liceu Nacional de Almada, the school abandoned the temporary pavilions in which it had been located for ten years, moving in October 1975 to the building it currently occupies.
In the 1978/79 academic year, this educational establishment was renamed Escola Secundária de Almada, a name that changed to its current name, Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes Pinto, in 1987/88.”
School Patron
“… And here came to an end my services of twenty-one years, in which I was thirteen times captive and sixteen times sold, because of the unfortunate successes that I left largely recounted in the discourse of this long pilgrimage of mine…”
(Excerpt from “The Pilgrimage” by Fernão Mendes Pinto)
Translated from: Breve Historial da Escola, Enviado por tecnico em Dom, 04/03/2007 – 15:06
Location: Escola Secundaria Fernão Mendes Pinto