Mirandela: Former school of Cedães becomes the seat of the parish junta

A former primary school of Cedães, in the county of Mirandela, was totally requalified, in an investment of about 150 thousand euros, and becomes the seat of the parish council of the village, today revealed the president of the municipality.

“ We continued to use [the school], the party commission was the one who enjoyed the most space and did events (...) but was not able. The floor was still all in wood, it was the original floor, (...) it was all rotten, on top it was still sheets of lusalite (...) it was all rotten and rained inside”, explained the president of the Junta de Freguesia, Ramiro Lourenço.

According to the mayor, the building was a “compared space” and was requalified, allowing to transform one of the school’s courtyards into an office where, since Saturday, the headquarters of the parish council, which until now was in completely degraded facilities.

The works also consisted of replacing caixilharia, covering, painting, accessibility, sanitary and creating a hall ara festivities or events for “use of the population”.

The school was built in the time of the New State and was closed for about 15 years, following government measures that led to the closure of many educational establishments in rural areas.

Requalification took a year and was inaugurated on Saturday. It cost 150 thousand euros, the majority supported by the parish council, but the work had a support of 13 thousand euros of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), for accessibility improvements, and about 40 thousand by the Municipal Council Mirandela, in the district of Bragança.