In 1902, Tito Larcher copies the plan drawn by Major Manoel Joaquim Brandão de Sousa in the beginning of the 19th century, dated 1816, naming it “Plan of the City of Leiria in the year of 1809”. The plan reproduced here is therefore a copy of the 1816 plan, the original being found in Leiria District Archive. It is a representation of the city with scale errors but it allows us to understand its morphology and organisation, having later been converted to the scale 1:1000 by Jorge Estrela e Rui Ribeiro in 1977 under the scope of the exhibition “The looting of the City of Leiria”.
