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APPIA-GULP-PRODE 2001
2001 JOINT CONFERENCE ON DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING

General Information

The aim of the Conference is to foster scientific meetings between Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Latin America researchers, to improve the knowledge of the state of the art of declarative programming (through the invited talks) and to show the ongoing research done (through presentations of papers).

The Conference is organized by the Universidade de Évora, founded in 1559 in Évora (Portugal).

Évora, located 140Km southeast of Lisbon, and 60km from the spanish border, is the capital of the province of the upper Alentejo, and is one of the oldest cities in the Iberian Peninsula. As a Roman town, it was known as ``Liberalitas Julia'', and it became particularly important during the late Middle Ages. In 1165 Évora was captured from the Moors, by the portuguese monarch D. Afonso Henriques, and it has since occupied an important place in the history of the nation. In the XIV, XV and XVI centuries Évora became the favourite seat of the Court and owing to its cultural and political developments it was soon, in those days, the second most important city of the kingdom, next to Lisbon. 
Évora is also reknown for its architecture, rich as it is in monuments varying in style and decoration from the Gothic Manueline and Mudejar to the Moorish, this latter deriving from the Mohamedan influence in southern Spain. 
In 1559, Cardinal D. Henrique, the future King, founded the University of the Holy Ghost for the Companhia de Jesus. This was a cultural and religious Jesuit establishement and thus was later closed by the Marquis of Pombal, in 1759. The University of Évora was reopened in 1973, and its main building is still the same of the old University.