Documentary “N2: The Road That Unites Us” wins 6 International Awards
São Brás de Alportel is one of the municipalities portrayed in the documentary film about National Road 2, awarded at the Finisterra Brazil Film Art & Tourism Festival 2024.
The documentary “N2: The Road That Unites Us” won six awards, featuring the longest road in Portugal and Europe as its main character. The awards were given during the 3rd edition of the Finisterra Brazil Film Art & Tourism Festival 2024, which took place at the beginning of this month in Porto Seguro, Brazil.
The festival featured 97 films from 20 countries that competed for 50 trophies across 20 categories. The Portuguese documentary, directed by Fernando Centeio and produced by Zulfilmes, won a total of 6 awards, namely: 1st place in the categories “Mountain,” “Travel,” “Places in History,” and “Human Life”; 2nd place in the category “Touristic Cities” and 3rd place in the category “Destination.”
National Road 2, around which the major inter-municipal project Route of EN2 was born, is the element that serves as the thread of the entire narrative, travelling through the past, present, and future of this road full of history and memories with people on it, taking the viewer through mountains and plains, rivers and water mirrors, lost villages, and cities rich in heritage, on a journey that crosses the country along one of the oldest roads in Portugal in search of the people and ancestral knowledge.
The Memory House of EN 2, in São Brás de Alportel, was one of the places visited during this documentary. Located next to the Largo de São Sebastião, precisely at the intersection between the country’s largest road and the largest road in the region – National Road 2 and Regional Road 270, the former Caretakers’ House – 8th Section of Road Conservation in the district of Faro, the Section House, after refurbishment works carried out by the Municipality of São Brás de Alportel, is today a museological space that annually welcomes thousands of visitors who travel here through the History of this Road and its memories, paying rightful tribute to the caretakers, Men of the Road.
The documentary “N2: The Road That Unites Us” resulted from a project by the Association of Municipalities of the Route of National Road 2, supported by Tourism of Portugal, as part of the promotion of the territories traversed by the mythical road N2, and is available on RTP Play.
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