Monumento de Interesse Municipal (2009) - Portugês
Natural de Estômbar, José Joaquim de Sousa Reis (1796-1838), por epíteto Remexido, estabeleceu-se em S. B. de Messines em 1818, após o seu casamento com Maria Clara (1800-1880). Homem honrado e preocupado com os seus concidadãos, pugnou pelo engrandecimento da aldeia durante toda a década de 1820. Na sequência das Lutas Liberais toma partido por D. Miguel (absolutismo), constituindo uma guerrilha com a qual impôs com violência os seus ideais no barlavento algarvio. Depois da Convenção de Évora Monte, com o triunfo do liberalismo, organiza em 1836 um outro movimento guerrilheiro, em defesa do rei proscrito, com o qual semeou novamente o pânico e o terror no Algarve e no Baixo Alentejo. Capturado em combate a norte de S. Marcos da Serra, a 28/7/1838, veio, após conselho de guerra, a ser fuzilado em Faro cinco dias depois.
O edifício, já património da família de Maria Clara na segunda metade do século XVIII, é composto por dois pisos, beirado duplo e singular cobertura de três águas, apresentando molduras em argamassa saliente. Embora proprietário de outras habitações, aqui terá residido Remexido, sendo provavelmente esta a casa incendiada pelo exército liberal, num ato de vingança pública, em maio de 1834. Ainda hoje é pertença da família.
Remexido’s House - English
Monument of Municipal Interest (2009)
Born in Estômbar, José Joaquim de Sousa Reis (1796-1838), nicknamed “Remexido” (roughly translated as “The Agitator”) took up residence in S .B. Messines in 1818 after marrying Maria Clara Machado de Bastos (1800–1880). An honourable man, concerned about the lives and living conditions of his fellow citizens, throughout the 1820s he fought for the improvement of the village. Following the Liberal Revolution of 1820, he took the side of Dom Miguel (leader of the Conservative Absolutist faction), building a guerrilla force with which he violently imposed his political ideals in Western Algarve. After the Évora-Monte Convention, with Liberalism being triumphant, in 1836 again he organised and led a new guerrilla movement in defence of the exiled King Miguel, using which group he sowed fear and terror in Algarve and Lower Alentejo. On July the 28th 1838, Remexido was captured in combat north of São Marcos da Serra and, following the judgement of a War Tribunal five days later, was shot dead by a firing squad in Faro.
The building, already part of Remexido’s wife Maria Clara’s family heritage during the second half of the eighteenth century, comprises two floors, with architectural features such as double rain-shedding coronas and a triangulated roof, presenting protruding mortar features typical of the period. While he owned other houses, Remexido is recorded to have lived in this house, some evidence of which is that in May 1834, part of the house was burned down by the Liberal army, in an act of public revenge. To this day the house continues to be owned by the family.
