Contemporary jewellery collection inspired by the military strategy known by square (which should have taken the form of a forward winged rectangle) and by the movement of troops caused by the tactical device – the death corridor or the tunnel effect*, designed by Nun'Álvares Pereira, also known as Saint Constable, beatified by Benedict XV [1918] and canonised by Benedict XVI [2009] - adopted by the Portuguese and British military forces (ca. 10 000 elements), when they defeated the Castilian and French forces (ca. 20 000 elements) in the Campo de S. Jorge [1385], The Battle of Aljubarrota** (Alcobaça).
Design Teresa Milheiro
* Monteiro, J.G. 2001. Aljubarrota Revisitada, ed. Univ. Coimbra.
** It was one of the few medieval major royal battles, which would be crucial to the end of the 1383-1385 political instability and to the consolidation of Portuguese independence and sovereignty.
