Pedro Bravo

Pedro Faria Bravo was born in Lisbon in March 1963, the city where he lived until he was 22 years old. As a child, I spent time in Alentejo and made vegetable gardens in pots on the balcony of the floor where I lived.

In 1977, at the age of 14, he got his first binoculars, with which he began birdwatching and began his exploratory trips around the country. At 18 he knew what he didn’t want in life, at 19 he was a photography aficionado and walked hills and valleys with the aim of photographing mills, he wanted to be an anthropologist or journalist. It wasn’t. He became a beekeeper and went to live in Alentejo, in Évora.

For twenty-two years he was a traveling beekeeper in the fields of Alentejo, Alto and Baixo, Algarve, the coast and the interior, until he finally settled in Mértola in the village of Corte da Velha, a small village that stretches along the hillside. of the São Barão mountain range.

He knows honey with his eyes closed or open and in 2005 he was one of the pioneers in the production of organic honey, which he continues to produce, he is fascinated by the multiple colors of the pollen he collects, he still takes photos, he watches birds every quarter of an hour. freedom that he finds in life, he likes to walk in the Alentejo countryside that he knows well, he is discovering the Guadiana river, he appreciates people, he listens to them tell about their lives and writes their stories, half chronicles, half stories, setting words from the rural world .

He likes authentic food and knows where it is, he is curious about the history that lives on the streets of Mértola. He is aware that if he cannot discover the whole world, he can wait for the world to appear to him through the travelers who seek him out so that he can take them to discover the world around him, the world of the Alentejo fields, the bees and birds that cross the skies.