Santa Cruz (Torres Vedras)

Santa Cruz is a locality in the Silveira parish, part of the municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal.

This exhibition aims to honor and immortalize the three great poets, portraying their passage and experiences through Santa Cruz.

[2] The Human history in Santa Cruz dates back to prehistory with its Paleolithic remains and antiquity with a Roman settlement which was slowly engulfed by the ocean.

In the middle ages, like other places in the western world, the region suffered an urban, social and architectural decline, only surviving adverse conditions as a community, and later throughout the 17th century, the locality had frequent piracy attacks on the coast.

With the French invasions the whole region gained more importance with the construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras that managed to stop the enemy forces.