When the last nun of the Convent of Saint Anne dies in 1880, it closes permanently and in 1903 the Ministry of Finance informs the City Hall that it will assign the grounds surrounding the old convent to the city in order to open up new streets. In addition to the opening of Rua José Jardim, Ernesto Korrodi designed the construction of a market, as well as the opening of a new avenue and roundabout, occupying the land of the old convent and its grounds. This is the first planned intervention for the transformation and development of a part of the city. On the 19th December 1917 a Leiria Municipal Executive Committee meeting decided to proceed with the drawing of the blueprint of the city of Leiria, work that would be carried out in 1918 and 1919 by Lieutenant Colonel Alexandre Baptista da Costa Pereira (1866-1961). This is the first survey of the city done on a 1:1000 scale that covered the entire urban area and a document that allows us to have information about the shape of the city and its toponymy at the beginning of the 20th century.
