Lisbon Craft

The Casa da Achada - Mario Dionisio Centre was founded in Lisbon in September 2008 by a group of over fifty of Mario Dionisio's friends, relatives, former students and teaching assistants, connoisseurs and scholars of his work. It opened to the public in September 2009. The Mario Dionisio Centre, which is housed in Casa da Achada, preserves his literary and artistic assets, his personal archive as well as the library he shared with his wife, Maria Leticia Clemente da Silva. This documentation centre has over 6,000 books and 300 periodicals and may be consulted by appointment. The documentation centre library catalogue is available online. As a cultural centre in Lisbon, where the writer, painter and teacher, was born (1916), lived and died (1993), Casa da Achada focuses on his personal interests and work. The public area is reserved for exhibitions, book readings, film projections, debates, workshops and social events that celebrate Mario Dionisio's life and work. There is also a well-stocked lending library catering to popular tastes in books. An updated catalogue is available online.