This is a permanent, non-profit institution. The entity´s mission is to collect, conserve and promote the history, culture and heritage of the Maceira-Liz Factory, thus adding value to these through research, interpretation, communication, exhibition and promotion with scientific, educational and recreational objectives.
This infrastructure was created in 2006 with the objective of providing the Maceira-Liz Factory Museum with a space dedicated to research, to the study of the collections, and to the reception of visitors. It is installed in an office which ...
The marl and limestone in the Maceira-Liz Factory quarries date back to the Jurassic Period. The paleontological heritage of the quarries largely consists of marine cephalopod fossils which emerge from the area of the stones which were cove ...
The Limestone Quarry Observatory comprises a privileged location for the observation of the entire limestone outcropping which dates back to the Jurassic period. The visitor will get to know the geological and paleontological framework of t ...
In 1935, the Maceira-Liz Factory began a new phase of development and technological innovation with the installation of the third production line, which began operations in 1938. This new production line was conceived to operate independent ...
Locomotive No. 1 was acquired in the beginning of 1926 and was in use until 1987. Its first trip to the Martingança station was conducted in July 1926, along the wide gauge railway which connected E.C.L to the national Western Line. All mov ...
The Nucleo Central of the Maceira-Liz Factory Museum was inaugurated on April 22, 1991 and was restructured between 2003 and 2011. It brings together a retrospective of the history of the Empreza de Cimentos de Leiria, through which the vis ...
The electrical power for the start-up of the construction of the E.C.L was provided by a group of three generators powered by diesel engines, the Diesel Power-Station. After the start-up of furnaces one and two, a Turbo-Generator Plant fed ...
With the environmental problems we face today, the growing population and global warming, water is a resource which is increasingly scare and important. This requires increasingly conscientious measures in regard to its usage. The Water Par ...