The former elementary school of Alfena was built by initiative and expenses of Comendador Manuel Martins Ferreira de Matos. The building was inaugurated on the 27th/June, 1927, in memory of his only daughter who died with the age of twenty years old. The elementary school is assigned with her name Idalina Matos, having a bust placed at the top of the school's central body. The school housed two classrooms, two rooms for teachers, a gym and a playground, gardens and avenue, and water from a mine. The school was adapted to the Centro Cultural de Alfena by the Municipality of Valongo, being inaugurated on the 30th/June 1999 with reading spaces, exhibitions and leisure. More recently, a museum space was created where some of the estate of the old educational institution was.
Location: Valongo
