college 1599–1605; theatre 1845
Teatro Lethes (Jesuit College of Santiago Maior)
Teatro Lethes / Colégio de Santiago Maior
Venetian doctor Lázaro Doglioni, shipwrecked in 1804, opens the theatre on 4 April for Queen Maria II's birthday.
Stories
Jesuits found a college 1599
The Jesuits settle in Faro; their College of Santiago Maior is built by 1605.
A soldier in the wall 1807
Junot's French troops quarter here; a Napoleonic soldier's skeleton is later found walled up inside.
A shipwrecked doctor builds a theatre 1845
Venetian doctor Lázaro Doglioni, shipwrecked in 1804, opens the theatre on 4 April for Queen Maria II's birthday.
First moving pictures 1898
On 11 September Faro's first Theatrograph film show is held here.
Teatro Lethes (Jesuit College of Santiago Maior) on the map of Faro