Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML) promoted last 14th and 15th of February the first Conference of Heritage dedicated to the subject of “To rehabilitate, to profit”. The conference took place at the Cultural Center of Belém (CCB), in Lisbon. This event brought together several Portuguese specialists from areas like Architecture, Urbanism and Heritage in order to discuss practices of conservation and heritage profiting.
SCML is a Portuguese charity institution with over 500 years old. For centuries it controlled and managed hospitals and offered assistance to the poor and in 1783 the queen granted it the control of the national lottery as main funding source.
