Tides and cork: the industrial story of Seixal
Seixal is known for its industrial heritage, grouped by the council along a Work and Industry Route. Read on for the Corroios Tide Mill, built in 1403 by Nuno Álvares Pereira, and L. Mundet & Sons, once the largest cork company in the country and, for a time, in the world.
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The council of Seixal groups much of its heritage along a Work and Industry Route. The Corroios Tide Mill was built in 1403 on the initiative of the Holy Constable Nuno Álvares Pereira, who donated it in 1404 to the Carmo Convent in Lisbon; it used the energy of the tides to grind cereal and kept working until the 1980s. Damaged by the 1755 earthquake and later repaired, it was bought by the municipality in 1980 and opened to the public in 1986. Classified as a Property of Public Interest, it stands in the protected Corroios salt marsh and is one of the oldest of the 45 tide mills identified in the Tagus estuary. In 1905 the firm L. Mundet & Sons settled in Seixal and became the largest cork company on the south bank, in the country and, for a time, in the world, known for its innovative social policy, with a crèche, a nursery school and a sports club. The factory closed for good in 1988 or 1989, and the municipality, which bought it in 1996, turned two of its buildings into museum spaces devoted to cork industrial heritage. Both sites belong to the Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum, created by the council in 1982 as the Seixal Municipal Museum and renamed Ecomuseum in 1983, which preserves the memory of the area across several sites.
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The Corroios Tide Mill was built in 1403 on the initiative of the Holy Constable Nuno Álvares Pereira, who donated it in 1404 to the Carmo Convent in Lisbon. It used the energy of the tides to grind cereal until the 1980s and is one of the oldest of the 45 tide mills identified in the Tagus estuary.
In 1905 L. Mundet & Sons settled in Seixal and became the largest cork company on the south bank, in the country and, for a time, in the world. It was known for its innovative social policy, with a crèche, a nursery school and a sports club.
The Ecomuseum was created by the council in 1982 as the Seixal Municipal Museum and renamed in 1983. It preserves the memory of the area across several sites, including the Corroios Tide Mill and two former Mundet buildings devoted to cork industrial heritage, bought by the municipality of Seixal in 1996.