Sintra – “Time Flees” Exhibition
The Sintra City Council is presenting the photography exhibition “TEMPVS FVGIT – Sundials of the Municipality of Sintra” at MASMO – Museu Arqueológico São Miguel de Odrinhas, from March 20 to September 21, 2024.
The exhibition by Emília Pires, a photographer from Sintra, consists of 49 photographs on the theme of sundials and is intended to be a first inventory of the sundials in Sintra and to deepen their scientific, historical and artistic study.
Sintra is home to a number of sundials in religious and public buildings, palaces, palaces or typical rural hillbilly houses. These clocks are stones full of history and symbolism, combining the technique of stonemasonry with two fundamental branches of knowledge: astronomy and mathematics.
The exhibition takes up the Latin expression inscribed on the sundial located at the Vasco da Gama College, in the parish of Queluz e Belas, “TEMPUS FUGIT” (“time flees”).
Come visit the exhibition and stay at the Hedone property in nearby Galamares.
Hedone is Home.