Personal details
Academic Background
Specialist with recognition by the CTC of the Proposing Institution (ISAG) in Cultural Tourism
Master in Archaeology - University of Porto
Bachelor in History - Archaeology variant - University of Oporto
Research Area
History, Heritage, Museology and Archaeology
Research Units/Centers
CICET - FCVC
Publications (most relevant)
Books and Book Chapters
Cleto, J. (2020). Matosinhos and Health - a brief History. Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos.
Cleto, J. (2020). The Factory. In A. F. Almeida, A. R. C. Rodrigues and F. A. Baptista (Eds.), Leça do Balio e Lionesa nas encruzilhadas da História e da Modernidade (pp. 321-351). Leça do Balio.
Cleto, J. (2019). Christmas legends. Bookcover.
Cleto, J. (2019). Lord of Matosinhos: Legend, History and Heritage. Matosinhos City Council.
Cleto, J. (2018). Vinícola: Do desertico areal do Prado à Casa da Arquitetura. In G. M. Vaz (Eds.), Real Vinícola. A reconversion. Blue Book.
Cleto, J. (2018). Legends of Porto (Vol V). BookCover.
Other Publications
Cleto, J. (2020). Another and terrible pandemic. Vida Económica.
Cleto, J. (2019). A good example in the (dis)ways of Europe. Vida Económica.
Cleto, J. (2018). Porto and the Airbnb. Vida Económica.
Cleto, J. (2018). Cities, transit sedentariness and tourism. Vida Económica.
Professional Experience
Collaborator in the television station "Porto Canal", ensuring the authorship and presentation of a weekly programme on History and Heritage, which won in 2016 the Best Media Work Award from the Portuguese Museology Association, since 2006.
Appointed Municipal Councillor for Culture by the Oporto City Council, in 2017.
Head of Cultural Promotion and Museums Division of Matosinhos City Hall, from 2004 to 2009 - belongs to the staff of this City Hall from 1987 to 2014 where, besides being an archaeologist, linked to the creation of the Municipal Historical Archive, he was in the direction of the Quinta de Santiago Museum, coordination of the Municipal Office of Archaeology and History and the Museums Network of Matosinhos.
Teacher of Secondary, Professional and Higher Education since 1993.
Teacher trainer since 1997.
Senior University Trainer, since 2007.
Consultant in the areas of History, Heritage, Museology and Archaeology in several architecture and urbanism projects, including, more recently, the Oporto Football Club Museum (2013), the conversion plan of Praça da República in Oporto (2017), and the musealization of the underground of Rio de Vila under Mouzino da Silveira street in Oporto (2016).