Picote Chapel

Abstract

«Deus quer, or homem sonha, a obra nasce», wrote Fernando Pessoa. And -I repeat his eternal words- that's how History is made.

Woven with a thousand threads of sleep and love, I bring you today the story of a building forgotten in time, lost beyond the mountains, that fate placed in my path and that now, proudly, I push towards yours. I am talking about the small chapel of Our Lady of Fatima, built in 1958 in the parish of Picote, in Miranda do Douro (Portugal).

This is not a paradigmatic building of Portuguese religious architecture; it has not influenced generations of architects or been the subject of studies and reflections. Nor was it the result of a deep digression on the subject. It is just a small cult building lost in the confines of the rural world that history let escape in the curves of time. But it remains incomparably beautiful and true today, as it was at the time it was lifted.