Historical and Artistic Heritage Department of Beja Diocese's - Departamento do Património Histórico e Artistico da Diocese de Beja (DPHA)

The DPHA gathers a multidisciplinary team of volunteers active in the safeguarding and promotion of the historical churches of the diocese of Beja. The organisation began its work in 1984 as a response to an extremely complex situation characterized by theft and looting of sacred art in the region's abandonned churches and resoration works by unqualified craftsmen. The DPHA launched a computerized…