Cinema Ossónoba

This is a vintage movie theater. It was inaugurated in 1950. The man who was responsible for the construction of this important center of culture - if you think about a tiny Portuguese village in the early 50's - was José Jesus Zeferino. He was born in a family of farmers, who moved to Argentine while he was a child. So, José grew up in Buenos Aires and was inspired by the vivid cultural scene of the Argentinian capital. Bringing a bit of that to his home village became a dream, which ended up becoming realidty in 1950.

In that decade the movie theater became the center of social life in Estoi. But everything comes to an end and slowly the interest in Cinema Ossónoba fell. It eventually closed and it was in 2009 that the municipality reopen the space. However, it's seldom used for some live performances and it hosts a couple of dancing classes. No movies there.

By the way, Ossónoba was the Roman name to Faro.