CARCAVELOS BEACH

AC World Series - News from Cascais, Race Day One

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FESTAS DE CARCAVELOS 2011

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FESTAS DE CARCAVELOS 2011

JULHO 21 A 23

MERCADO DE CARCAVELOS

MUSICA AO VIVO

MERCADO ALTERNATIVO

ARTE * MODA * CULTURA

Apoios: Câmara Municipal de Cascais

Organização: Junta de Freguesia de Carcavelos

TAUROMAQUIA SEGUNDO MARQUES VALENTIM - EXPOSIÇÃO DE 6/06/2011 A 01/07/2011

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"A TAUROMAQUIA segundo Marques Valentim" é a tentativa de aproximação da Fotografia à Pintura.

Através da sua objectiva, Valentim “desenha a faena”, procurando transmitir algumas das nuances mais artísticas que a “FESTA” pode proporcionar. Do detalhe à tragédia (Prémio VISÃO 2001 de foto jornalismo), da homenagem a Amália Rodrigues (em Olivença), à pura arte fotográfica (imagens arrastadas, como se fossem pinceladas, numa simples tela), o fotojornalista com assinatura reconhecida, apresenta nesta exposição, várias obras fotográficas, todas elas impressas também, em tela, e que podem ser uma base de trabalho para futuros entusiastas da Festa Brava.

Embora controverso, o fascínio pelo espectáculo Tauromáquico tem inspirado, ao longo dos séculos pintores, escultores, músicos, escritores e fotógrafos de todo o Mundo.

Restaurante Maria Laranja encontra-se aberto de Segunda a Sexta-feira das 7h00h às 20h00.

Centro Empresarial Lagoas Park – Rua das Lagoas Pequenas Edifício 5B – Loja 4A 2760-266 Porto Salvo

21 605 72 96 / 91 021 00 42

HATHA YOGA - CLUBE DE TÉNIS DE CARCAVELOS

2011-06-06T21:25:00.001+01:00

HATHA YOGA

A imagem que o yoga projecta é de posturas complexas e de grande flexibilidade. O yoga é a nossa aprendizagem, a nossa evolução, a redescoberta da nossa dimensão espiritual ao longo da dinâmica da vida: felicidade, insegurança, medo, amor, solidão, preguiça, prazer. 

Aulas de Hatha Yoga com uma abordagem dinâmica, unindo a respiração com o movimento e escutando a inteligência do nosso corpo.

Venha experimentar uma aula e tome consciência de como o Yoga pode ser aplicado no seu dia à dia!

Local: Clube de ténis de Carcavelos
(perto do Rivieira hotel de Carcavelos)
Horário: 19h30-20h30 às 2ª e 4ªfeiras
Informações e inscrições através do info@carcavelos-tenis.com ou 916120372

Instrutora: Marcia Matos

Com uma pós-graduação em Yoga pela Faculdade de Motricidade Humana/Federação Portuguesa de Yoga e frequenta o 4º e último ano do curso de professores de yoga da Federação Portuguesa de Yoga.

FOR RENT 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT

2011-02-08T11:10:00.003Z

For rent 3 Bedroom Apartment in prestigious building in the "Palmeiras" Towers. 140m2. Fully equipped kitchen with 4m2 pantry. 3 Bedrooms, 1 suite, 2 toilets. 25m2 closed balcony. Air conditioning. Doorman building. Near to Comercial center, shops, post office, railway station, beach, Marginal Avenue and A5 freeway. Contacts: R...emax GAP - 92 528 64 65 - http://www.remax.pt/123361001-84

T3 em prédio de prestigio na Torres das Palmeiras. 140m2. Cozinha equipada e remodelada com despensa de 4m2. 3 quartos, 1 suite. 2 WC. Sala 30m2. Pavimento flutuante em cerejeira. Varanda fechada 25m2. Ar condicionado. Prédio com porteiro. Próximo transportes, comércio e serviços. Avenida Marginal e A5. Contacte: Remax GAP - 92 528 64 65 - http://www.remax.pt/123361001-84

CHEZ OSKAR NO OEIRAS PARQUE

2010-12-08T17:51:00.000Z

Portuguese cuisine, 5 star service, comfortable and minimalist atmosphere, affordable, CHEZ OSKAR, in Oeiras Park, open every day.

Reservations: 934 201 279

Cozinha tradicional portuguesa, atendimento 5 estrelas, ambiente confortável e minimalista, preços acessíveis, CHEZ OSKAR, no Oeiras Parque, aberto todos os dias.

Reservas: 934 201 279

AMAZING SUNSET ... 5.30PM... 3-11-2010... 22ºDEGREES...4

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I can not find words to describe the fantastic atmosphere of the beach today, I hope that the images can. The beach was full of surfers, body boarders, young people, beautiful people, the terraces and cafes with people laughing and talking, quiet dogs waiting for their owners. and an amazing sunset.

AMAZING SUNSET ... 5.30PM... 3-11-2010... 22ºDEGREES...3

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AMAZING SUNSET ... 5.30PM... 3-11-2010... 22ºDEGREES...2

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AMAZING SUNSET ... 5.30PM... 3-11-2010... 22ºDEGREES...1

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CARCAVELOS BEACH 2051

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SURFING AT SUNSET - 11

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SURFING AT SUNSET - 2

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SURFING AT SUNSET - 1

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CARCAVELOS BEACH DETAILS 4

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CARCAVELOS BEACH DETAILS 3

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CARCAVELOS BEACH DETAILS 2

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CARCAVELOS BEACH DETAILS

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SUNSET AT CARCAVELOS BEACH 2010.09.29 - 4

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SUNSET AT CARCAVELOS BEACH 2010.09.29 - 3

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SUNSET AT CARCAVELOS BEACH 2010.09.29

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SUNSET AT CARCAVELOS BEACH - 2010.09.29

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RENEWAL OF CONTRACT

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Contrato de 2010 e 2011

Depois de uma séria e cautelosa consideração, quero notificar-te que o nosso

"Contrato de amizade"

foi renovado para o novo ano de 2010 e 2011.

Nunca desvalorize ninguém
guarde cada pessoa perto do seu coração
porque um dia você pode acordar
e perceber que perdeu um diamante
enquanto estava muito ocupado colecionando pedras.

Mande este abraço para todos os que não quer perder em 2010 e 2011.

CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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CASCAIS

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Estoril Handicrafts Fair August 2010

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Until 29 August, the Estoril Handicrafts Fair once again brings together more than three hundred craftspeople providing live demonstrations of the ancestral techniques and traditions of their art. Created 47 years ago, this is the oldest event of its kind in Portugal.

Cuisine, like handicrafts, also makes a strong showing at the fair, where the entire range of Portugal’s culinary wealth can be enjoyed in the many eating areas devoted to the country’s regional specialities. The snacks, baked goods and pastries typical of North and South Portugal will delight everyone, and weekly demonstrations of regional dishes are also on the agenda.

Dedicated to the many expressions of popular culture, this event offers a broad programme of daily musical entertainment, with some of the best Portuguese artists and groups from every musical genre, including folkloric “ranchos” and cultural groups. Presentations will also be given by orchestras, philharmonic bands and jazz groups, among other styles.

Friday evenings are reserved for fado, sung by the voices of Diamantina, Ana Laíns, Pedro Moutinho, Jorge Fernando and Fábia Rebordão, Yola Dinis and Isabel Noronha, Cristina Branco, Alexandra Guimarães, Ricardo Ribeiro and Maria João Quadros.

With its younger audience in mind, the fair is offering a space for fun activities where children can participate in workshops, performances and games under specialised supervision.

The Estoril Handicrafts Fair will be open from 6 pm to midnight on weekdays and from 5 pm until midnight on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

FESTAS DE CARCAVELOS

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Hora de início:	Quarta-feira, 14 de Julho de 2010 às 20:00
Hora de fim:	Domingo, 18 de Julho de 2010 às 23:30
Local:	Mercado de Carcavelos

ESTORIL AIR SHOW - JUNE 20, 2010

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Iniciative promoted by the Municipality of Cascais in partnership with PROAIR and the support of the portuguese Air Force and Navy.

Iniciativa promovida pela Câmara Municipal de Cascais em parceria com a PROAIR, e com o apoio da Força Aérea e da Marinha portuguesas.

CARCAVELOS BEACH

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CARCAVELOS BEACH

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CARCAVELOS BEACH

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June 17th 2010 - SUMMER IS HERE

CARCAVELOS BEACH

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VALE A PENA PENSAR NISTO...

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No que diz respeito à ambição de riqueza, ou pelo menos a um desafogo duradouro, é indicado o seguinte: "o espiritual e o material são dois elementos complementares para alcançar uma vida plena e feliz. É errado supor que existe uma situação de bem-estar mental e existencial que desdenha os aspectos materiais da vida. A escassez de dinheiro e a insegurança económica são inimigos mortais da plenitude psíquica e física que desejamos. São situações que provocam ansiedade, angústia, depressão e medos e que impedem mudanças favoráveis que nos transformam e aperfeiçoam" (Para além do segredo). Vale a pena pensar nisto...

COME 2 SEA

2009-10-26T02:55:00.009Z

A new way to discover the Sea.
Uma nova forma de descobrir o Mar.

Come 2 Sea is dedicated to organizing tourist Tours in Estoril Coast and pretends to offer all visitors a different and unforgettable expirience on board Sublime.

A Come 2 Sea é uma empresa dedicada à organização de passeios na Costa do Estoril e que pretende oferecer a todos os visitantes uma experiência diferente e inesquecível a bordo do Sublime.

See the Estoril Coast, observe the sea bottom and discover a new way to see the Sea, on board the Sublime.
A bordo do Sublime observe a Costa do Estoril e o fundo marinho e descubra uma nova maneira de ver o mar.

Percursos:
Marina de Cascais (Partida)
Estoril (30min)
Estoril-Guia (60min)
Oeiras (60min)
Lisboa/Docas (90min)

Shop and Ticket Sale /Loja e Venda de Bilhetes :
Marina de Cascais, Loja 10

Tel/Fax: +351 214 861 911
Email: geral@come2sea.pt
www.come2sea.pt

The XanGo Story: Joe Morton's Mangosteen Dream

2009-10-04T13:18:00.008+01:00

For information "How to become an Independent Distributor" please contac:

www.myxango.de/tgrteam

PENA AVENTURA - PURE ADRENALINE

2009-10-03T10:50:00.018+01:00

PENA AVENTURA PARK is dedicated to Ludic and Adventure Sports, situated in Ribeira de Pena, district of Vila Real, Portugal, it is destinated to all type of people who like to practise outdoor activities. This will be certainly a park for all ages and it has a large variety of activities, adrenaline and freedom sensations are pure. People will free themselves of day-by-day stress.

FANTASTICABLE Is a cable that has a length of 1538 meters that links the places of Lamelas and Bustelo. It is suspended from a height of 150 meters and people can "fly" the cable at a maximum speed of 130 km/h. It's the largest Fantasticable in the World. People are suspended from the cable and will slide from one mountain top to the other at different speeds. Its a real flight sensation.

ACTIVITIES: Fantasticable, Night Flight, Adventure Tours, Paintball, Canyoning , TT Vehicles , Rafting, Climbing, Rapel, Slide, Shooting, Hiking, Segway X2, Children Quads, Bungee Jumping, Minigolfe.

THE BUNGALOWS are in harmony with all the natural surroundings. Our aim is to provide people who prefer the countryside and nature a harmonious stay.

CONTACTS:

PENA AVENTURA
Organização de Actividades Desportivas, Lda.
Bustelo - Salvador
4870-110 Ribeira de Pena
Portugal

Tel: +351 259 498 085
Mob: +351 935 010 875
Email: geral@penaaventura.com
Web: www.penaaventura.com

XANGO ORIGINAL MANGOSTEEN JUICE

2009-10-02T13:15:00.007+01:00

After harvest, mangosteen fruit undergoes a proprietary process that washes and softens the rind; at the same time, pre-ship mangosteen samples are tested and approved before the harvest is accepted and prepared for the production process. Fruit that meets strict quality guidelines is then submitted to a three-stage purée process to preserve flavor and nutritional integrity, and create the Queen of mangosteen juices from the Queen of Fruits. To meet impressive demand and secure a fresh final product, XanGo^® Juice is formulated and manufactured daily.

WHY MANGOSTEEN?

2009-09-28T04:49:00.014+01:00

One Product

No coloring

No preservatives

No sugar

100% natural

Public Enemy Number 1 – Oxidization

We are just 70 Trillion Cells

Degeneration of cells = degeneration of YOU!

Cause of a sick cell = Oxidization

Causes of Oxidization:

Modern Life ;
Stress;
The water we drink;
The food we eat;
The air we breath;
Sunlight;

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

2009-09-07T12:47:00.009+01:00

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (November 25, 1845–August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. Others rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Eça never officially rejected Catholicism, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, as is evident in his novels.

Biography

Eça de Queiroz was born in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, in 1845. An illegitimate child, he was officially recorded as the son of José Maria de Almeida Teixeira de Queiroz, a Brazilian judge, and of an unknown mother. Teixeira de Queiroz soon afterwards married Carolina Augusta Pereira d'Eça, and it has been suggested that in reality the boy was her son by an unknown father, or even that he was instead both his and her son, as most genealogists and relatives contend.

At age 16, he went to Coimbra to study law at the University of Coimbra; there he met the poet Antero de Quental. Eça's first work was a series of prose poems, published in the Gazeta de Portugal magazine, which eventually appeared in book form in a posthumous collection edited by Batalha Reis entitled Prosas Bárbaras ("Barbarous texts"). He worked as a journalist at Évora, then returned to Lisbon and, with his former school friend Ramalho Ortigão and others, created the Correspondence of the fictional adventurer Fradique Mendes. This amusing work was first published in 1900.

In 1869 and 1870, Eça de Queiroz travelled to Egypt and watched the opening of the Suez Canal, which inspired several of his works, most notably O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra ("The Mystery of the Sintra Road", 1870), written in collaboration with Ramalho Ortigão, in which Fradique Mendes appears. A Relíquia ("The Relic") was also written at this period but was published only in 1887. When he was later dispatched to Leiria to work as a municipal administrator, Eça de Queiroz wrote his first realist novel, O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Sin of Father Amaro"), which is set in the city and first appeared in 1875.

Eça then worked in the Portuguese consular service and after two years' service at Havana was stationed at 53 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, from late 1874 until April 1879. His diplomatic duties involved the dispatch of detailed reports to the Portuguese foreign office concerning the unrest in the Northumberland and Durham coalfields - in which, as he points out, the miners earned twice as much as those in South Wales, along with free housing and a weekly supply of coal. The Newcastle years were among the most productive of his literary career. He published the second version of O Crime de Padre Amaro in 1876 and another celebrated novel, O Primo Basílio ("Cousin Basílio") in 1878, as well as working on a number of other projects. These included the first of his "Cartas de Londres" ("Letters from London") which were printed in the Lisbon daily newspaper Diário de Notícias and afterwards appeared in book form as Cartas de Inglaterra. As early as 1878 he had at least given a name to his masterpiece Os Maias ("The Maias"), though this was largely written during his later residence in Bristol and was published only in 1888. There is a plaque to Eça in that city and another was unveiled in Grey Street, Newcastle, in 2001 by the Portuguese ambassador.

Eça, a cosmopolite widely read in English literature, was not enamoured of English society, but he was fascinated by its oddity. In Bristol he wrote: "Everything about this society is disagreeable to me - from its limited way of thinking to its indecent manner of cooking vegetables." As often happens when a writer is unhappy, the weather is endlessly bad. Nevertheless, he was rarely bored and was content to stay in England for some fifteen years. "I detest England, but this does not stop me from declaring that as a thinking nation, she is probably the foremost." It may be said that England acted as a constant stimulus and a corrective to Eça’s traditionally Portuguese Francophilia.

In 1888 he became Portuguese consul-general in Paris. He lived at Neuilly-sur-Seine and continued to write journalism (Ecos de Paris, "Echos from Paris") as well as literary criticism. He died in 1900 of tuberculosis.

MECHANIX WOMEN´S UTILITY GLOVE

2009-08-07T17:03:00.019+01:00

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MOTOGP - Portugal Grand Prix 2009

2009-07-27T23:44:00.015+01:00

If your are planning to attend MOTPGP Portugal Grand Prix, don’t forget that will take place on 2,3,4 of October 2009.

Grandstand Tickets Selling Places:

Tickets can be bought through the internet on www.ticketline.pt. You can also place your order by calling +351 707 234 234:

– Monday to Friday from 11h00 until 20h00;
- Saturday/Sunday/Pulic Holiday from 13h00 until 20h00.

If you are in Portugal there are several places to buy tickets from: Fnac Shops, Dolce Vita Shopping Malls, El Corte Ingles, Abreu Travel Agencies, Mega Rede, Worten Shops, Bliss and Bulhosa Bookshop, making a total of 1.000 different selling places.

If you choose to buy your ticket through the internet or telephone, you may choose to receive your ticket either by post, or to pick it up at the Estoril Circuit, Shop 4, Grandstand A on race days (2nd-3rd-4th October).

Ticket Selling at the Estoril Circuit

Tickets will be on sale soon at the Estoril Circuit.
Grandstand Ticket Prices

Youth – between 11 and 14 years old;
Children with less than 10 years old – free entrance if accompanied by an adult.
Friday ticket only available at the circuit ticket booths
N.A. – Not Available

VIP VILLAGE Tickets

If you’re looking for the VIP Village tickets, please contact:

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS SERVICES S.L. Corporate Hospitality Dpt.
Narcís Monturiol, 2 08960, Sant Just Desvern Barcelona - Spain
Tel +34 934 738 154 Fax +34 934 738 154
e-mail: motogpvipvillage@dorna.com

www.motogp.com

Carta de Despedida Gabriel García Márquez -

2009-07-22T19:41:00.005+01:00

Si por un momento Dios se olvidará de que soy una marioneta de trapo y me regalara un trozo de vida, posiblemente no diría todo lo que pienso, pero en definitiva pensaría todo lo que digo. Daría valor a las cosas, no por lo que valen, sino por lo que significan. Dormiría poco, soñaría más. Entiendo que por cada minuto que cerramos los ojos perdemos sesenta segundos de luz. Andaría cuando los demás se detienen, despertaría cuando los demás duermen, escucharía cuando los demás hablan y ¡cómo disfrutaría de un buen helado de chocolate!

Si Dios me obsequiara un trozo de vida, vestiría sencillo, me tiraría de bruces al sol, dejando descubierto, no solamente mi cuerpo sino mi alma. Dios mío, si yo tuviera un corazón, escribiría mi odio sobre el hielo y esperaría a que saliera el sol. Pintaría con un sueño de Van Gogh sobre las estrellas un poema de Benedetti, una canción de Serrat sería la serenata. Regaría con mis lágrimas las rosas, para sentir el dolor de sus espinas y el encarnado beso de sus pétalos...

Dios mío si yo tuviera un trozo de vida... no dejaría pasar un solo día sin decirle a la gente que quiero que la quiero. Convencería a cada hombre o mujer de que son mis favoritos y viviría enamorado del amor. A los hombres les probaría cuán equivocados están al pensar que dejan de enamorarse cuando envejecen, sin saber que envejecen cuando dejan de enamorarse. A un niño le daría alas, pero le dejaría que él solo aprendiese a volar. A los viejos les enseñaría que la muerte no llega con la vejez sino con el olvido.

Tantas cosas he aprendido de ustedes, los hombres... he aprendido que todo el mundo quiere vivir en la cima de la montaña, sin saber que la verdadera felicidad está en la forma de subir la escarpada. He aprendido que cuando un recién nacido aprieta con su pequeño puño, por vez primera, el dedo de su padre, lo tiene atrapado por siempre. He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse. Son tantas las cosas que he podido aprender de ustedes, pero realmente de mucho no habrán de servir, porque cuando me guarden dentro de esa maleta, infelizmente me estaré muriendo.

Siempre di lo que sientes y haz lo que piensas. Si supiera que hoy es última vez que te voy a ver dormir, te abrazaría fuertemente y rezaría al Señor para poder ser el guardián de tu alma. Si supiera que esta fuera la última vez que te vea salir por la puerta, te daría un abrazo, un beso y te llamaría de nuevo para darte más. Si supiera que ésta fuera la última vez que voy a oír tu voz, grabaría cada una de tus palabras para poder oírlas una y otra vez indefinidamente. Si supiera que estos son los últimos momentos que te veo, diría TE QUIERO y no asumiría tontamente que ya lo sabes.

Siempre hay un mañana y la vida nos da otra oportunidad para hacer las cosas bien, pero por si me equivoco y hoy es todo lo que nos queda, me gustaría decirte cuanto te quiero, que nunca te olvidaré. El mañana no le está asegurado a nadie, joven o viejo. Hoy puede ser la última vez que veas a los que amas. Por eso no esperes más, hazlo hoy, ya que si el mañana nunca llega, seguramente lamentarás el día que no tomaste tiempo para una sonrisa, un abrazo, un beso y que estuviste muy ocupado para concederles un último deseo. Mantén a los que amas cerca de ti, diles al oído lo mucho que los necesites, quiérelos y trátalos bien, toma tiempo para decirles lo siento, perdóname, por favor, gracias y todas las palabras de amor que conoces.

Nadie te recordará por tus pensamientos secretos.
Pide al Señor la fuerza y sabiduría para expresarlos.
Demuestra a tus amigos cuánto te importan.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have tried to find an english version but wasn't the same so I leave you with original.

Pasteis de Bacalhau - Cod Fritters Recipe

2009-07-21T19:38:00.010+01:00

Total time: more than 2 hours

Preparation time: A few minutes + 12 hours soaking time
Cooking time: 20 minutes + frying time

Difficulty: Easy

There's no exact translation for the Portuguese word "pasteis" - it's a kind of frtter made from salt cod and potato, an intrinsic part of Portuguese cuisine, served as an hors d'oeuvre in restaurants, a snack in "tascas" or at fast-food counters and a staple of buffets. At home they're often served with rice and a salad as a simple meal.

There are numerous variations.

Ingredients
For 24 fritters

- 340 g (12 oz.) dried salt cod
- 550 g (1 lb. 3 oz.) firm potatoes, peeled
- 3 eggs
- Nutmeg
- Oil for frying
- 1 tbsp. chopped parsley
- Pepper

Method

desalt the cod and soak for 12 hours;
half fill a saucepan with boiling water; add the potatoes and cod;
simmer uncovered over medium heat for 20 minutes or until the cod and potatoes are completely cooked;
remove the skin and bones from the cod;
put the cod and potatoes through a meat grinder or chop in a food processor;
blend in the egg yolks and parsley, season with a little pepper and nutmeg;
beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold gently into the mixture;
form into fritters - take a large tablespoonful of the mixture and place another spoon of the same size on top to mold it; continue until all the mixture has been made into fritters;
fry the fritters in hot oil for a few minutes on each side until browned;
drain on paper towels;
serve hot or cold.

Carne de Porco à Alentejana (Portuguese Pork Alentejana)

2009-07-21T19:10:00.008+01:00

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups dry white wine
1 teaspoon paprika
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 cloves garlic, peeled and cut in half
1 bay leaf
2 pounds pork loin, cut into 1 inch cubes
3 teaspoons olive oil, divided
2 onions, peeled and thinly sliced
2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic
2 tomatoes - peeled, seeded and chopped
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
24 small clams in shell, scrubbed
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

DIRECTIONS
1.In large bowl, combine wine, paprika, salt and pepper, blend well. Add garlic cloves, bay leaf, and cubed meat, turn meat in marinade to coat pieces. Marinate for 6 hours, turning occasionally.
2.Drain pork; reserve marinade. Pat cubes completely dry. Discard garlic and bay leaf. Melt 1 teaspoon of oil in large skillet. Add pork cubes, stirring frequently so that the meat colors quickly and evenly. Transfer with slotted spoon to a bowl.
3.Pour reserved marinade into skillet and bring to a boil over high heat, scraping off any brown particles clinging to the inside of pan. Boil briskly uncovered until marinade is reduced to 1 cup. Pour over pork and set aside.
4.In 6 to 8 quart pan, heat remaining 2 teaspoons oil; add onion and cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently until onion is soft but not brown. Add garlic, tomatoes and crushed red pepper. Simmer, stirring constantly for 5 minutes.
5.Spread the clams, hinged side down, over the tomato sauce; cover the pan tightly and cook over medium to high heat for ten minutes or until clams open. Stir in reserved pork and juices. Simmer for 5 minutes to heat thoroughly. Sprinkle with parsley.

PETER´S CAFE SPORT

2009-07-21T18:09:00.018+01:00

Peter’s Café Sport is the most famous bar in the North Atlantic. Having first opened its doors on Christmas Day 1918, the Café Sport started life as just another bar in the busy port and city of Horta. It was in the 1950s that the yachts began once again to visit Faial and that the Café Sport began to build its unique reputation. The Café Sport, or Peter’s, as it is better known, has witnessed a continuing parade of the world’s best sailors and many famous international celebrities.

Renowned among sailors, Peter Café Sport is a must for anyone visiting the island of Faial in the Azores. Pop in for a G&T and check out the photos on the walls and gifts left behind throughout the years.

Originally called the Casa Azores, the Café was opened at the end of the 19th century by Ernesto Azevedo as a handicraft shop, but gradually began selling drinks too. Set in the port of Hortas on the island of Faial, it was the first and only point of arrival and departure of both goods and people. The café continued as a family business, with Henrique Azevedo both moving it to a different location and giving it the name of Café Sport as well as instilling it with many of its current characteristics.

Over the years ships' crews and round-the-world sailors have passed by the island, leaving behind gifts and photos at the café. Even the blue and black paint of the exterior is a reminder of the Dutch crews who befriended Henrique Azevedo in the Second World War. HMS Lusitania II was docked here at this time and the name Peter was added to the cafe when a petty officer on the ship said the young José Azevedo looked like his son, Peter.

The café moved to its current location in 1983 and the gifts and photos left by the visitors have continued to add to its renown - so much so that Newsweek once called it one of the best bars in the world. Today it is run by José Azevedo and it's not just a place to drink and rest, but somewhere to meet with the locals and play draughts and dominoes, to gather information, get a weather report or merely rest and pass the time away. The adjoining Scrimshaw Museum displays whale bones and teeth.

If you can´t visit the original at the Island of Faial, go to Oeiras Yatching Harbour and you will find the "Peter´s Café Sport Oeiras"

Address:
Porto de Recreio de Oeiras, Bloco A
Estrada Marginal, Praia da Torre,
2780-267 Oeiras
Portugal

Tel: 351 214 467 335
Fax: 351 214 467 336
Email: oeiras@petercafesport.com

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues by Sir Elton John

2009-07-07T16:49:00.017+01:00

Don't wish it away
Don't look at it like it's forever
Between you and me I could honestly say
That things can only get better

And while I'm away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won't be long before you and me run
To the place in our hearts where we hide

And I guess that's why they call it the blues
Time on my hands could be time spent with you
Laughing like children, living like lovers
Rolling like thunder under the covers
And I guess that's why they call it the blues

Just stare into space
Picture my face in your hands
Live for each second without hesitation
And never forget I'm your man

Wait on me girl
Cry in the night if it helps
But more than ever I simply love you
More than I love life itself

Music: Elton John and Davey Johnstone
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Album: Too Low For Zero

When Elton John is at his best, as on "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," he makes as good a case as any contemporary songwriter -- including critical favorites like Elvis Costello -- for status as one of the late-20th century's classic pop music composers. A nostalgic song that finds John teaming back up with his longtime collaborator, Bernie Taupin, after a few years' break (on and off), "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is likely to stand the test of time as a standard.

John is a master of mood; the song is a warm, nostalgic, comforting, and highly emotional bit of melancholy. Reaching the heart-wrenching climax in the song's chorus multiple times -- "Wait on me girl/Cry in the night if it helps" -- the melody alone tugs at the heartstrings. Taupin is in top form here as well, with a lyric that takes its cue from Tin Pan Alley songs of the '40s and '50s, particularly World War II-era songs of separation like "Till Then": "Just stare into space/Picture my face in your hands/Live for each second without hesitation/And never forget I'm your man." Taupin shows an enormous amount of growth from his greener early-'70s days when his ambition often exceeded his ability, resulting in often fumbling, forced verbiage. With lines like, "And while I'm away/Dust out the demons inside/And it won't be long before you and me run/To the place in our hearts where we hide," the lyricist finds compelling and fresh means of expressing a universal emotion.

As with the lyric, the music has more than a tinge of nostalgia, with a '50s-like R&B shuffle, a jazzy piano theme, and an inspired, Toots Thielemans-like harmonica solo from Stevie Wonder. The soaring solo takes the song to new heights, the ache of the sentiment palpable in every note. (Song Review by Bill Janovitz)

OEIRAS YACHTING HARBOUR, A CHARMING YACHTING HARBOUR

2009-07-07T16:32:00.007+01:00

Location: 38 º40.60’N / 9º19.00’W

Navigable depth: 3 m
Predominant Wind: N e NW
Communication channel: VHF – channel 9
Floating platforms

Harbour reception hours:
Summer: 01/05 to 30/09 from 8 am to 10 pm
Winter: 01/10 to 30/04 from 8 am to 6 pm

Arrival:
The reception pier with 58m is located on starboard of the harbour entrance.
The access to the reception’s pontoon is done through a -3,0m dredged canal at low tide.

Berthing:
The harbour has 274 berths, separated into 7 pontoons.

NUMBER OF BOATS
In water (floating dock system): 274 berths
On land (dry stack storage): Area 4 500 m2 – 100 places

OFFICIAL ENTITIES WITH PREMISES IN THE YACHTING HARBOUR

SEF (Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)
Alfândega Marítima de Lisboa
Polícia Marítima
Brigada Fiscal da GNR

NAVIGATION

Approach:
The harbour entrance is nearly situated at 0.5 miles, on the east side of S. Julião beacon (Oc R 5s), with a range of 14 miles, placed on a grey prismatic tower with red dome, 41 meters high, located in the coordinates 38º40,466’N / 9º19,515’W.

Entrance:
The harbour entrance is done through the northern and southern breakwater tops
Northern Breakwater: 38º 40.62’N / 9º 18,99º W
White cylindrical tower with green stripes (FI G 3s 8m 1.5M)
Southern 38º40.56’N / 9º19.00’W
White cylindrical tower with red stripes (FI R 3s 8m 1.5M)

Leading line:
The entrance is done with 277º course, up to the alignment of the small breakwater beacons, and then it must be corrected to SW (nearly 255º), in such a way to pass between the southern breakwater and the top of the pier breakwater (signalised with green light small beacon), at 3m altitude (Lt. 0.5s;0c. 1.0s; Lt.0.5s;Oc. 2.0s).

SUPPORT SERVICES PROVIDED TO BOATS

Shower and toilet facilities (suitable for wheelchair users)
Laundry room (washing machine, drying machine and iron)
Communication service access (telephone, fax, WI-FI, VHF)
Water, electricity and bilge water pumping
Fueling berth (Diesel and 95 octane unleaded petrol, 24 hours a day)
Trolleys and cargo transportation

Commercial area:
Restaurants and bars
Press shop
Convenience store
Nautical material stores

Parking:
200 parking places available

SECURITY

The pontoons access is allowed exclusively through access cards.
Security experts patrol the harbour 24/24 hours.
Lifesaving, first-aid and fire-fighting equipments are installed in pontoons.
Video monitoring, based on a closed television system with image recording, is installed,

For further information, please contact:

Oeiras Viva

Porto de Recreio de Oeiras
Estrada Marginal – Praia da Torre
2780-267 Oeiras
Portugal

Tel: +351 214 401 510
Fax:+351 214 401 515

www.oeirasviva.pt

precreio@oeirasviva.pt

Portuguese Vineyards

2009-07-07T13:56:00.009+01:00

Portugal is home to one of the greatest international wine success stories of modern times. That is the production and marketing of medium sweet, lightly sparking rosés. In the late 1980s, Mateus accounted for over 40% of the country's total table wine exports and was especially popular in Europe. Lancers is better known in the United States, where it continues to be successful.

Grapes

The type of grapes (castas) is as important has the type of soil and climate, creating the different Portuguese wine breeds, the Castas - grape varieties.

It produces distinctive wines from the Northern regions to Madeira Islands, passing by the Algarve and the Azores.

The particular breed of wines makes Portugal a country with distinctive personality in terms of wine growing. But this distinctiveness brings more diffulties than advantages, due that it would be easier to produce international wine varieties.

In Portugal only some varieties of castas are authorized in the Demarcated regions:

• Vinhos Verdes - white and red castas
• Porto - white and red castas
• Douro - white and red castas
• Dão - white and red castas
• Bairrada - white and red castas
• Bucelas - white castas
• Colares - white and red castas
• Carcavelos - generous castas
• Setúbal - generous castas
• Alentejo - white and red castas
• Algarve - white, red, and Liqueurous castas
• Madeira - generous castas

Each region has its own Comissão Vitivinícola to supervise the quality of the wines in various aspects of the cultivation and preparation of vineyards, but also in assuring the quality of the wine, for instance, in its flavour and scent.

The Appellation System

Main article: Denominação de Origem Controlada

The appellation system of the Douro region was created nearly two hundred years before that of France, in order to protect its superior wines from inferior ones.

The quality and great variety of wines in Portugal are due to noble castas, microclimates, soils and proper technology.

Official designations:

• Quality Wine Produced in a Specific Region (QWPSR) or VQPRD - Vinho de Qualidade Produzido em Região Demarcada.

•These are the most protected wine and indicates a specific vineyard, such as Port Wine, Vinhos Verdes, and Alentejo Wines. These wines are labeled D.O.C. (Denominação de Origem Controlada) which secures a superior quality.

• Wines that have more regulations placed upon them but are not in a DOC region fall under the category of Indicação de Proveniência Regulamentada (IPR, Indication of Regulated Provenance).

• Regional Wine - Vinho Regional Carries with it a specific region within Portugal.

• Table Wines - Vinho de Mesa carries with it only the producer and the designation that it's from Portugal.

DROPS OF JUPITER by TRAIN

2009-07-06T19:36:00.015+01:00

Now that shes back in the atmosphere
With drops of jupiter in her hair,
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change,
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like june,

Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking at yourself out there

Now that shes back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellation,
She checks out mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that theres time to grow,

Now that shes back in the atmosphere
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the milky way
And tell me, did venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone
Conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the milky way

AUSÊNCIA by Nuno Judice in "Pedro lembrando Inês"

2009-07-06T19:05:00.020+01:00

Quero dizer-te uma coisa simples: a tua ausência dói-me.

Refiro-me a essa dor que não magoa,
que se limita à alma; mas que não deixa,
por isso, de deixar alguns sinais,
um peso nos olhos, no lugar da tua imagem,
e um vazio nas mãos, como se as tuas mãos
lhes tivessem roubado o tacto.

São estas as formas do amor, podia dizer-te;
e acrescentar que as coisas simples
também podem ser complicadas,
quando damos conta da diferença entre o sonho e a realidade.

Porém, é o sonho que me traz a tua memória;
e a realidade aproxima-me de ti,
agora que os dias correm mais depressa,
e as palavras ficam presas numa refracção de instantes,
quando a tua voz me chama de dentro de mim
e me faz responder-te uma coisa simples,
como dizer que a tua ausência me dói.

Inês de Castro: The Queen Who Was Crowned After Death

2009-07-06T18:01:00.015+01:00

"Agora é tarde; Inês é morta" (“It’s too late; Inês is dead”) is a Portuguese saying used in everyday life. By continuing to use it more than 550 years after Inês' death, people still evoke one of the most tragic heroines of all time, whose story is rooted not only in Portuguese history and language but also in universal myth and fable.

Inês Pérez de Castro (ca. 1320-1355) was the daughter of the powerful Pedro Fernandes de Castro, an illegitimate grandson of King Sancho IV of Castile. She arrived in Portugal in 1340 as a lady-in-waiting to her cousin, Infanta Constança of Castile, who was to marry the heir to the Portuguese throne, Dom Pedro (son of King Dom Afonso IV). But immediately the crown prince set his eyes on Inês' “heron neck," he was in love with the noble lady. Even though he married the Castilian Infanta in 1340, he began to neglect his lawful wife and focussed his attention on Inês. The die was cast, and an irresistible love story was about to be written. Pedro was madly in love, and legend even says that he used to send his love letters through a pipe that carried water from the estate of Quinta do Pombal* to the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, where the beautiful lady was settled.

In a cunning manoeuvre aimed at putting an end to her husband’s love affair, Constança invited Inês to be the godmother of her newly born son, Infante Dom Luís (who was born on 27 February 1340 and lived for just a few weeks), as in the eyes of the Catholic Church, this would make Inês a member of the family and would render her affair with Dom Pedro incestuous. However, the Princess' scheme did not have the desired effect; despite her efforts, as well as the King's later attempts to separate the lovers (by banishing Inês from Court and sending her back to Castile in 1344), the feelings of the couple for each other did not subside, and Pedro continued to visit Inês when she was away from the kingdom. Dona Constança, on the other hand, did not have long to live. She died on 13 November 1345, shortly after giving birth to her third child, Infante Dom Fernando (born on 31 October).

Once he was no longer married, Dom Pedro went after Inês, brought her back to Portugal and settled her in Coimbra, where they would live together openly. The lovers were closer than ever, and they went on to have four children: Afonso (who died in infancy), Beatriz (born around 1347), João (born in 1349), and Dinis (born in 1354). Meanwhile, the Prince became increasingly close to Inês' brothers (Álvaro and Fernando de Castro), who tried to convince him to claim the throne of Castile, thus endangering the already fragile relations between Portugal and that neighbouring kingdom. Soon the Prince (also a grandson of King Sancho IV of Castile) was persuaded by their arguments and declared himself a pretender to the thrones of León and Castile, taking advantage of the weak position of his cousin, Pedro of Castile, due to the intrigues created by the bastards of Alfonso XI.

It became evident to the Portuguese King and aristocracy that the Castro clan would end up dragging the future monarch and his kingdom into the dynastic fights of their neighbours. Moreover, Dom Afonso IV and his courtiers secretly feared that at some time in the future Inês' sons would impugn the legitimacy of Infante Dom Fernando (the surviving son of Pedro and Constança), causing a civil war. Even worse, they were concerned that the Castros might make an attempt on the life of this frail little heir.

These fearsome prospects led the King and his advisers to look for ways to free the Prince from the damaging influence of the Castro clan, and the death of Inês started to be seen as a solution. Initially, Dom Afonso IV was reluctant to agree to such an extreme action against the mother of his grandchildren, but on 7 January 1355 (while Pedro was away from home), the King called his counsellors to a meeting in the Castle of Montemor-o-Velho, at the end of which he finally decided to send three of his courtiers - Pêro Coelho, Álvaro Gonçalves and Diogo Lopes Pacheco - to Coimbra, in order to kill Inês.

According to Cristóvão Rodrigues Acenheiro's Chronicles – which would inspire poets and novelists throughout history – as soon as they arrived, Inês appeared surrounded by her children and appealed to the Dom Afonso IV, who was thus struggling between the needs of the state and his feelings as a grandparent. Finally, he left the room, saying to the counsellors: "Do whatever you want". As soon as the King had turned his back, the sentence was carried out: Inês de Castro was executed.

Although the assassination took place in Santa Clara-a-Velha (where the couple had been living together since Constança’s death), the myth associates Inês' tragedy with the Quinta das Lágrimas [Estate of Tears], and people believe that her blood still stains the red stone-bed of the spring on this estate, where she is said to have cried out for the last time, while being pierced by the daggers of the executioners.

Queen after Death

When Dom Pedro heard that Inês had been killed, the terrible news drove him into a fury. Knowing that his father had ordered the killing, Dom Pedro staged a revolt against the King. For several months, with the support of the Castro brothers, his troops swept through the country and laid siege to the city of Porto. Finally, the Queen intervened to end the revolt and bring about a reconciliation between father and son, who formally promised to forgive the incident. But two years later, Dom Afonso IV died and Dom Pedro succeeded to the Portuguese throne. As soon as he was crowned in 1357, and in spite of his promises of forgiveness, King Dom Pedro I recovered two of Inês' assassins from Castile, where they had sought refuge (the third had escaped to France). He then had them tortured and executed in a barbaric but highly symbolic way: from one of the men who had killed the love of his life, the heart was ripped out of the body through his back, and from the other, the heart was pulled out through the chest. All this happened in front of the Royal Palace, where the King was able to watch the terrible scene while having dinner!

In spite of being based on medieval concepts of justice, such infamous cruelty would give the King the nickname of Pedro the Cruel. Nevertheless, according to the 1891 Hispanic-American Encyclopedia, his entire reign was evidence of his sweet and benevolent character. Of all three Pedros who were reigning in Hispania (Castile, Aragon and Portugal) at the time - all three known by the nickname the Cruel - the Portuguese king was the one who least deserved it. He protected the people and curbed the excesses of the nobility, and so nobles and clergymen nicknamed him the Cruel, while the folks remembered him rather as the Just.

Either way, Pedro's eagerness for justice was great and the painful memories were asking to be avenged. On 12 June 1360, the King announced in Cantanhede that, some years earlier, he had secretly married Inês, in the town of Bragança. The bishop of Guarda, Dom Gil, and one of his servants, Estêvão Lobato, were presented as witnesses of the wedding - although nobody seemed to remember the date when it had taken place. Nevertheless, Inês de Castro was declared Dom Pedro's legitimate wife and therefore the lawful Queen of Portugal. The King then ordered her body to be exhumed and taken from the Monastery of Santa Clara in Coimbra to the Monastery of Alcobaça (the tomb of kings), where she was buried in an extraordinary ceremony, on 2 April 1361.

Chronicler Fernão Lopes (ca. 1378-1459) described it thus: "D. Pedro ordered a tomb of white marble, finely surmounted by her crowned statue, as if she was a Queen; and then he caused the tomb to be placed in the Monastery of Alcobaça [...] and made the corpse come from the Monastery of Santa Clara of Coimbra, escorted by many horses and noblemen and maids and clergymen. And all the way through, a thousand men were holding candles, in such a way that always the body was enlightened; and thus it arrived at the Monastery, which was seventeen thousand leagues away from Coimbra, where the body was buried with many religious services and great solemnity. And it was the most magnificent translation ever seen in Portugal". The extraordinary splendour of this unique ceremony was so impressive that Heinrich Schöffer (Historia de Portugal, ed. 1893) described the scene with a memorable metaphor: "Inês de Castro was led to Alcobaça between two lines of stars".

Afterwards, the accounts of Pedro's actions mix reality with legend. Some say that the tomb was placed opposite Pedro's own grave, so that they could look into each other’s eyes on the day of the last judgment. Others go even further and say that, once in Alcobaça, Pedro had Inês placed on the throne, put the royal crown on the skull, and forced the entire court to swear allegiance to the dead Queen, by kissing the hand of the corpse. One thing is known for sure: the eighth King of Portugal was moved by strong feelings that united him to the queen of his heart and, according to the royal chronicler Fernão Lopes, he was consumed by a "great madness".

Thus, their love story turned into a myth. “The Queen who was crowned after death" seems not to have died in vain; if not to keep the future of Portugal as graceful as her executioners wanted, at least so that, by dying, she could become the finest representation of the Portuguese "saudade"... that mysterious longing for something that is unfinished and might return in the future. By an ironic fancy of Destiny, Constança's son (Dom Fernando) would be the last king of the First Dynasty, while the heir of the new king, Dom Duarte, would marry, in 1428, to Dona Leonor of Aragon, herself a great-granddaughter of Inês de Castro... After everything, all the kings from the glorious Dynasty of the Discoveries descend from her!

Inês has taken hold of our souls. The royal mistress took leave of her life to become an eternal muse. Nothing is so incorruptible as her death.

TOY MUSEUM - MUSEU DO BRINQUEDO

2009-07-05T17:04:00.017+01:00

The toys exhibited in this Museum are part of a collection gathered during more than 50 years by João Arbués Moreira.

This collection started when he was 14 years old with the toys offered to him and other toys witch belonged to his parents and grand parents. With age, his taste refined and his buying power increased along with an acute curiosity, to learn more about the pieces collected, their origin, their manufacturer, their history.

Thus, it was initiated a lifetime of permanent researching and purchasing of older samples and the interest towards the History of Mankind so well portrayed through toys.
Along the years the collection increased up to more than 40.000 different toys. There was a need to preserve and exhibit such collection, making it possible to the public to have contact with the biggest collection of this kind in Portugal.

In 1987 it was created the Foundation Arbués Moreira to which all the collection was donated. Two years later, an agreement with the Sintra Town Hall provided a space which allowed the opening of the Museu do Brinquedo in Sintra.

The collection continued to grow and the space which housed the museum became too small for all the toys purchased and donated in the meanwhile. Therefore, it was more than necessary to find a new location that could house all the collection and simultaneously provide a richer communication between the museum and its visitors.

This new location, in the old Sintra Firemen Head Quarters, includes appropriate facilities to watch thematic videos, a playful multimedia room, a room designed to set up a temporary exhibitions and a restoration workshop.

Visitor nformation:

Address:
Rua Visconde de Monserrate,
2710 Sintra
Portugal

Tel: +351 21 924 21 71
Fax: + 351 31 923 00 59
Email: m-brinquedo@museu-do-brinquedo.pt

www.museu-do-brinquedo.pt

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday From 10h00 to 18h00
Closed on Mondays

JERONIMOS MOSNATERY

2009-07-03T13:45:00.028+01:00

In 1496 King Manuel I petitioned the Holy See for permission to build a large monastery at the entrance to Lisbon on the banks of the Tagus River. Construction began in 1501 and the work was finished about a century later. The reason for building the Jerónimos Monastery lie, without doubt, in the wish of the monarch to reunite the Avis-Beja dynasty, of which he was the first, in a National Pantheon.

King Manuel I and his descendents were buried in marble tombs placed in the Chancel of the Church and in the transept chapels. Dedication of the Monastery to the Virgin of Belém was another important factor for the King. The Jerónimos Monastery, as is generally known, was to replace the original church on the same site, dedicated to Santa Maria of Belém (St. Mary of Belém) and where the monks of the Order of Christ gave comfort to passing seamen.

The main façade of the building extends more than three hundred metres, and the wide horizontal expanse confers a sense of repose and calm. It was constructed in stone, quarried locally in Ajuda, in the Alcântara Valley, Laveiras, River Seco and Tercena.

Given the immense scale of the project and the cost of the work, building contractors and the master craftsmen responsible for them followed one after the other. Diogo de Boitaca (ca.1460-1528), João de Castilho (ca.1475-1552), Diogo de Torralva (ca. 1500-1566), Jerónimo de Ruão (1530-1601) are some of the names of those who left their indelible mark on the building, according to Monastery documents. King Manuel I poured large sums of money into the building of the Monastery at Belém. A good part of what was called the "the pepper tax" (approximately 5% of the receipts from the spice trade with Africa and the East, the equivalent of 70kg of gold per year) served to pay for the work, which, from the beginning, was strictly dependent on the King. In the 19th century architectural changes were made to the Monastery. These did not change its basic structure, but gave it the form we know today. A cupola bell chamber, the dormitory (today the Archaeological Museum) and the Chapter House were some of the places, which were, altered the most.

Towards the end of the 19th century the remains Vasco da Gama and Luís de Camões were placed in the Church in tombs built by the sculpture Costa Mota.

The Jerónimos Monastery is generally referred to as the "jewel" of Manueline architecture. The unique and beautiful Manueline style draws together architectural elements of the late Gothic and Renaissance periods, and associates them with the symbols of the king, Christianity and the natural world.

King Manuel chose the monks of Order of St. Jerome (Hieronymus monks) to occupy the Monastery. Their functions were to pray for the King's soul and give spiritual comfort to seamen and navigators leaving the Restelo beach for the discovery of other lands.

The Order lived in the Monastery for four centuries until 1833, when religious communities were dissolved and the Monastery cleared. The Monastery passed into the hands of the State and became a college for the pupils of the Casa Pia of Lisbon (a children charity) until around 1940. Since early in its history the Monastery has been a symbol of the Portuguese nation. There are many reasons for this: because it has always been intimately associated with the Royal House of Portugal; because of the good works and intellectual capacity of the monks; because of the Order's links with Spain; its inevitable link to the epic Age of Discovery and finally because of its geographical position at the entrance to the port of Lisbon.

Visitor Information:

Address:
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos Praça do Império,
1400-206
Lisboa
Tel: 00 351 21 362 00 34
Fax: 00 351 21 363 91 45

email: mj@ippar.pt or mjeronimos@ippar.pt

www.mosteirojeronimos.pt

Openning Times:

October to April from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
May to September from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Last ticket sold 30 minutes before closing

TICKETS Cloister and chambers:
Standard: € 6
Dual Ticket (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos/Torre de Belém): € 8
Tour Ticket: Lisboa Monumental (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos/Torre de Belém/ Palácio da Ajuda): € 10 Group Ticket (according to the number of visitors): 100 up to 200 visitors (5% discount); 201 up to 500 visitors (10% discount); more than 500 visitors (20% discount) 65 and older and disabled by showing a suitable card: € 3 Youth Card: € 2,4 Family Card (parents with two or more children under 18, 50% discount upon the ticket price of one of the parents - mother or father): € 3 Free Admission: Children till 14 years old Sundays and Holidays till 2.00 pm For individual teachers and students (maximum 15 vistors) or teachers and students on study visit, subject to previous booking and a suitable document from school or college Lisboa Car.

MEDEIROS E ALMEIDA FOUNDATION

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The Foundation:

The Medeiros e Almeida Foundation was created in 1973, it was named after its founder who donated to his country the house - where he lived for 30 years - and the art collection that he gathered during his lifetime. The aim of the Foundation is to study, conserve and divulge the artworks The asset of the Foundation includes pieces of different collections; Watches and Clocks, China Porcelain, Painting, Furniture, Silversmith/Jewelry, Sculpture and Textiles in a total of circa 9.000 pieces, being 2.000 on display in 26 rooms.

The Benefactor:

António Medeiros e Almeida was born in Lisbon, in September 1895, the son of João Silvestre de Almeida and Maria Amélia de Medeiros e Almeida, both from the Azores. In 1916 he goes to Coimbra to study medicine - both his father and brother Gustavo were doctors. By the last year he abandoned the medical school and went to Germany to study economics. Two years later, in 1924, he returns to Lisbon and marries Margarida Castelo Branco Pinto Basto, the daughter of the owners of the famous porcelain factory; Vista Alegre. Soon he became a successful businessman, ranging all kind of businesses. A few years later he said that he was (...) responsible for the management of 21 companies, all giving profits (...)"

The House:

The house was built in 1896 by a Lisbon lawyer; Augusto V. dos Santos, it stays in the family until 1921 when it is sold to Eduardo Guedes de Sousa, who adds the two last floors. In 1927 it is sold to the State of the Vatican, to house the Nunciature, represented by Monsignor Pedro Ciriaci, Tarso's Archbishop. In 1943 the house is bought by Mr. Medeiros e Almeida who moved, after some works of renovation. In the early 70's, with the creation of the Foundation, the building is enlarged, creating a new wing built in the site of the garden, in order to house the Museum. Mr. Medeiros e Almeida and his wife move next door, to a new house where he lives until his death in 1986.

The Collection:

Along with his business activities, António Medeiros e Almeida dedicated himself to buying works of art, at first to decorate his new house, but collecting became more like a passion. From the post-war period, he dedicates more to the collection being a frequent visitor to the most famous auction houses in Europe and America and contacting with private collectors all around the world. The antique dealers were offering him interesting pieces and good opportunities; soon he is known as one of the great art collectors of his time. Mr. Medeiros e Almeida's wish was to gather an eclectic collection, both valuable and coherent that turned in one of the most important art assets in Portugal, which he later donated to his country.

Visitor information:

Address:
Rosa Araújo Street, 41 1250-194 Lisbon

Tel: +351 21 3547892
Fax: + 351 21 356 19 51
Email: geral@fundacaomedeirosealmeida.pt

www.fundacaomedeirosealmeida.pt

Opening Hours:

From Monday to Friday from 1p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5.30p.m.
Closed on Sundays and the following holidays: 1st January, Holy Friday, 1st May, 24th and 25th December.

Tickets desk closes at 5 p.m.

Prices:

General:
5 € Young (10-16): 3 €
Children up to 9: Free
Over 65: 3 €
Saturdays from 10.00 a.m. to 13.00 p.m.: FREE
Guided Tours: 6 € Morning Guided Tours (from Monday to Friday): 9 € Annual Fee: 50€

Room Hiring:

Some Museum rooms are available for hire to perform events such as business dinners, brunches, meetings and seminars. The events can take place from Monday to Friday between 7 a.m. and 12 a.m. and from 5.30 p.m. on. Saturdays from 5.30 p.m. on Sundays are available all day. Guided tours for the events on request For further information, please call (00 351)21 354 78 92

Enquanto Salazar Dormia...(While Salazar was asleep) by Domingos Amaral

2009-07-01T21:41:00.008+01:00

Lisbon, 1941. An oasis of peace in Europe hit by the horrors of World War II. The refugees arrive by the thousands and Lisbon is full with millionaires and movie stars, spies and Jews. Portugal becomes the stage of a secret war, that Salazar allows, but watch from a distance.

Our hero Jack Gil Mascarenhas, becames a spy for MI6 , works to dismantle the the Nazi spy network operating throughout the country, from Estoril to a St. Vincent, from Alfama to Ericeira. These are his memories, told 50 years later and he recalls the times he had lived in Lisbon full of sun, light, and shadows of love. Jack Gil remembers the women he loved, the sumptuous environment of the Hotel Aviz, where spies crossed with ambassadors and kings, and sinister's members of the Salazar´s secret police or even the taxi drivers in town.

A secret and hidden world, where things happen "While Salazar was asleep," as Michael said ironically, the great friend of Jack, also a spy for MI6. In a divided country, men become more harsh and women more available. Boil intrigue and gossip, in a dirty war and sophistication, transforming Portugal and those who lived there in the 40s.

Product Details

Paperback: 467 pages
Publisher: Casa das Letras (2006)
ISBN-13: 9724616541
Portuguese Edition

Fernando Pessoa

2009-07-01T15:29:00.035+01:00

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa; (born June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — die November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda. He was bilingual in Portuguese and English, and fluent in French.

Early years in Durban

In 1893, when Pessoa was five, his father died of tuberculosis. The following year his younger brother, aged only one, died too and his mother married again in 1895. In the beginning of 1896, he moved with his mother to Durban, capital of the former British Colony of Natal, where his stepfather was appointed Portuguese consul. The young Pessoa received his early education at Durban High School, becoming fluent in English and developing an appreciation for English literature. In the "Intermediate Examination in Arts", for admission to the Cape Town University, he was awarded the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize, recently created, for the best paper in English.

At the age of sixteen, The Natal Mercury (July 9, 1904 edition) published his poem "Hillier did first usurp the realms of rhyme...", under the name of Charles Robert Anon, along with a small introductory text: "I read with great amusement...". In December, The Durban High School Magazine published his essay «Macaulay». From February to June, 1905, in the section "The Man in the Moon", The Natal Mercury also published at least four sonnets by Fernando Pessoa: "Joseph Chamberlain", "To England I", "To England II" and "Liberty" . Joking with the name Anon, short for anonymous author, the young Pessoa revealed a fine sense of humour that he would keep during his lifetime.

In 1905, at the age of seventeen, he sailed for Lisbon via the Suez Canal on board the "Herzog", leaving Durban for good. This journey inspired the poems "Opiario" (dedicated to Mario de Sa-Carneiro) publishd in March, 1915, in Orpheu nr.1 and "Ode Maritima" (dedicated to the futurist painter Santa Rita Pintor) publishd in June, 1915, in Orpheu nr.2 by his heteronym Alvaro de Campos.

Return to Lisbon

While his family remained in South Africa, Pessoa returned to Lisbon to study literature. A student strike soon put an end to his studies and Pessoa chose to study privately at home for a year. His grandmother died in 1907 and left him a small inheritance that he spent on setting up his own publishing house, the Empreza Ibis. The venture was not a success and closed down in 1910. Ibis, the sacred bird in the Ancient Egypt would remain an important symbolic reference for him. Meanwhile, Pessoa found a job working as an assistant to a businessman, writing correspondence and translating documents. In 1915, he and other artists and poets, such as Almada Negreiros and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, created the literary magazine Orpheu, which introduced modernist literature in Portugal.

In his early years, Pessoa was influenced by English Classics such as Shakespeare, Milton and Spenser, and Romantics like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Later on he was influenced by French symbolists Charles Baudelaire and Stephane Mallarme, mainly by Portuguese poets such as Antero de Quental, Camilo Pessanha, Cesário Verde, Antonio Nobre and modernists such as Yeats, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, among many other writers. In 1918 Pessoa published in Lisbon two slim volumes of English verse: Antinous and 35 Sonnets. Along with two associates, he founded a publishing house, Olisipo, which published in 1921 a further two English poetry volumes: English Poems I-II and English Poems III by Fernando Pessoa. He wrote a guidebook to Lisbon in English, but it remained unpublished until 1992: Lisbon - What the Tourist Should See (Shearsman Books, 2008). Pessoa translated a number of English books into Portuguese, and translated the poems "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe which, along with Walt Whitman, strongly influenced him.

After his return to Lisbon in 1905, Pessoa barely left his beloved city, which inspired the poems "Lisbon Revisited" (1923 and 1926). If Franz Kafka is the writer of Prague, Fernando Pessoa is certainly the writer of Lisbon. In The Book of Disquiet, his heteronym Bernardo Soares describes some typical places of Lisbon's downtown and its "atmosphere". Bernardo Soares was supposedly an accountant, working at Vasques's office, the boss, in Douradores Street, an world Pessoa knew very well, during his almost 30 year career, as free lance correspondence translator in a number of firms. Pessoa was a frequent client at Martinho da Arcada a centennial coffee house downtown, almost an "office" for his private business and literary issues. He also frequented other coffee shops, bars and restaurants, a number of which no longer exist. The statue of Fernando Pessoa can be seen outside A Brasileira, one of the places where he would meet friends, writers and artists during the period of Orpheu. In the aristocratic district of Chiado, this coffee shop is quite close to Pessoa's birthplace: 4, Largo de Sao Carlos (in front of the Opera House), one of the most elegant quarters of Lisbon.

His interest in mysticism led Pessoa to correspond with the occultist Aleister Crowley. He later helped Crowley plan an elaborate fake suicide when he visited Portugal in 1930. He translated Crowley's poem "Hymn To Pan" into Portuguese.

Pessoa died of cirrhosis in 1935, at the age of forty-seven, almost unknown to the public and with only one book published in Portuguese: "Mensagem" (Message). He left a lifetime of unpublished and unfinished work (over 27,000 pages manuscript and typed that have been housed in the Portuguese National Library since 1986). The heavy burden of editing this huge work is still in progress. In 1988 (the centenary of his birth), Pessoa's remains were moved to the Jerónimos Monastery, in Lisbon, where Vasco da Gama, Luís de Camões, and Alexandre Herculano are also buried.

Pessoa's portrait was on the 100-escudo banknote.

Heteronyms

Alberto Caeiro

Pessoa's earliest heteronym, at the age of six, was the Chevalier de Pas. Other childhood heteronyms included Dr Pancrácio and David Merrick, followed by Charles Robert Anon and Alexander Search; these were eventually succeeded by others, most notably: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares. Translator Richard Zenith notes that Pessoa eventually established at least seventy-two heteronyms. The heteronyms possess distinct temperaments, philosophies, appearances and writing styles. According to Pessoa, the heteronym closest to his personality was Bernardo Soares, the author of The Book of Disquiet.

Alberto Caeiro was Pessoa's first great heteronym; summarized by Pessoa, writing: "He sees things with the eyes only, not with the mind. He does not let any thoughts arise when he looks at a flower... the only thing a stone tells him is that it has nothing at all to tell him... this way of looking at a stone may be described as the totally unpoetic way of looking at it. The stupendous fact about Caeiro is that out of this sentiment, or rather, absence of sentiment, he makes poetry."

What this means, and what makes Caeiro such an original poet is the way he apprehends existence. He does not question anything whatsoever; he calmly accepts the world as it is. The recurrent themes to be found in nearly all of Caeiro's poems are "wide-eyed child-like wonder at the infinite variety of nature", as noted by a critic. He is free of metaphysical entanglements. Central to his world-view is the idea that in the world around us, all is surface: things are precisely what they seem, there is no hidden meaning anywhere.

He manages thus to free himself from the anxieties that batter his peers; for Caeiro, things simply exist and we have no right to credit them with more than that. Our unhappiness, he tells us, springs from our unwillingness to limit our horizons. As such, Caeiro attains happiness by not questioning, and by thus avoiding doubts and uncertainties. He apprehends reality solely through his eyes, through his senses. What he teaches us is that if we want to be happy we ought to do the same. Octavio Paz called him "the innocent poet". Paz made a shrewd remark on the heteronyms: "In each are particles of negation or unreality. Reis believes in form, Campos in sensation, Pessoa in symbols. Caeiro doesn't believe in anything. He exists."

Poetry before Caeiro was essentially interpretative; what poets did was to offer an interpretation of their perceived surroundings; Caeiro does not do this. Instead, he attempts to communicate his senses, and his feelings, without any interpretation whatsoever.

Caeiro attempts to approach Nature from a qualitatively different mode of apprehension; that of simply perceiving (an approach akin to phenomenological approaches to philosophy). Poets before him would make use of intricate metaphors to describe what was before them; not so Caeiro: his self-appointed task is to bring these objects to the reader's attention, as directly and simply as possible. Caeiro sought a direct experience of the objects before him.

As such it is not surprising to find that Caeiro has been called an anti-intellectual, anti-Romantic, anti-subjectivist, anti-metaphysical...an anti-poet, by critics; Caeiro simply—is. He is in this sense very unlike his creator Fernando Pessoa: Pessoa was besieged by metaphysical uncertainties; these were, to a large extent, the cause of his unhappiness; not so Caeiro: his attitude is anti-metaphysical; he avoided uncertainties by adamantly clinging to a certainty: his belief that there is no meaning behind things. Things, for him, simply—are.

Caeiro represents a primal vision of reality, of things. He is the pagan incarnate. Indeed Caeiro, Richard Zenith tells us, was not simply a pagan but 'paganism itself'.

The critic Jane M. Sheets sees the insurgence of Caeiro—who was Pessoa's first major heteronym—as essential in founding the later poetic personas: "By means of this artless yet affirmative anti-poet, Caeiro, a short-lived but vital member of his coterie, Pessoa acquired the base of an experienced and universal poetic vision. After Caeiro's tenets had been established, the avowedly poetic voices of Campos, Reis and Pessoa himself spoke with greater assurance."

Ricardo Reis

Reis sums up his philosophy of life in his own words, admonishing: 'See life from a distance. Never question it. There's nothing it can tell you.' Like Caeiro, whom he admires, Reis defers from questioning life. He is a modern pagan who urges one to seize the day and accept fate with tranquility. 'Wise is the one who does not seek', he says; and continues: 'the seeker will find in all things the abyss, and doubt in himself.' In this sense Reis shares essential affinities with Caeiro.

Believing in the Greek gods, yet living in a Christian Europe, Reis feels that his spiritual life is limited, and true happiness cannot be attained. This, added to his belief in Fate as a driving force for all that exists, as such disregarding freedom, leads to his epicureanist philosophy, which entails the avoidance of pain, defending that man should seek tranquility and calm above all else, avoiding emotional extremes.

Where Caeiro wrote freely and spontaneously, with joviality, of his basic, meaningless connection to the world, Reis writes in an austere, cerebral manner, with premeditated rhythm and structure and a particular attention to the correct use of the language, when approaching his subjects of, as characterized by Richard Zenith,'the brevity of life, the vanity of wealth and struggle, the joy of simple pleasures, patience in time of trouble, and avoidance of extremes'.

In his detached, intellectual approach, he is closer to Fernando Pessoa's constant rationalization, as such representing the ortonym's wish for measure and sobriety and a world free of troubles and respite, in stark contrast to Caeiro's spirit and style. As such, where Caeiro's predominant attitude is that of joviality, his sadness being accepted as natural ('My sadness,' Caeiro says, 'is a comfort for it is natural and right.'), Reis is marked by melancholy, saddened by the impermanence of all things.

Ricardo Reis is the main character of José Saramago's 1986 novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.

Alvaro de Campos

Alvaro de Campos manifests, in a way, as an hyperbolic version of Pessoa himself. Of the three heteronyms he is the one who feels most strongly, his motto being 'to feel everything in every way.' 'The best way to travel,' he wrote, 'is to feel.' As such, his poetry is the most emotionally intense and varied, constantly juggling two fundamental impulses: on the one hand a feverish desire to be and feel everything and everyone, declaring that 'in every corner of my soul stands an altar to a different god '(alluding to Walt Whitman's desire to 'contain multitudes'), on the other, a wish for a state of isolation and a sense of nothingness.

As a result, his mood and principles varied between violent, dynamic exultation, as he fervently wishes to experience the entirety of the universe in himself, in all manners possible (a particularly distinctive trait in this state being his futuristic leanings, including the expression of great enthusiasm as to the meaning of city life and its components) and a state of nostalgic melancholy, where life is viewed as, essentially, empty.

One of the poet's constant preoccupations, as part of his dichotomous character, is that of identity: he does not know who he is, or rather, fails at achieving an ideal identity. Wanting to be everything, and inevitably failing, he despairs. Unlike Caeiro, who asks nothing of life, he asks too much. In his poetic meditation 'Tobacco Shop' he asks:

How should I know what I'll be, I who don't know what I am?
Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

Fernando Pessoa-himself

'Fernando Pessoa-himself' is not the 'real' Fernando Pessoa. Like Caeiro, Reis and Campos—Pessoa 'himself' embodies only aspects of the poet， Fernando Pessoa's personality is not stamped in any given voice; his personality is diffused through the heteronyms. For this reason 'Fernando Pessoa-himself' stands apart from the poet proper.

'Pessoa' shares many essential affinities with his peers, Caeiro and Campos in particular. Lines crop up in his poems that may as well be ascribed to Campos or Caeiro. It is useful to keep this in mind as we read this exposition.

The critic Leland Guyer sums up 'Pessoa': "the poetry of the orthonymic Fernando Pessoa normally possesses a measured, regular form and appreciation of the musicality of verse. It takes on intellectual issues, and it is marked by concern with dreams, the imagination and mystery."

Richard Zenith calls 'Pessoa' most intellectual and analytic poetic persona.' Like Alvaro de Campos, Pessoa-himself was afflicted with an acute identity crisis. Pessoa-himself has been described as indecisive and doubt plagued, as restless. Like Campos he can be melancholic, weary, resigned. The strength of Pessoa-himself's poetry rests in his ability to suggest a sense of loss; of sorrow for what can never be.

A constant theme in Pessoa's poetry is Tedio, or Tedium. The dictionary defines this word simply as 'a condition of being tedious; tediousness or boredom.' This definition does not sufficiently encompass the peculiar brand of tedium experienced by Pessoa-himself. His is more than simple boredom: it is from a world of weariness and disgust with life; a sense of the finality of failure; of the impossibility of having anything to want.

'The impossibility of having anything to want': this is Tedio for Pessoa-himself. It is one thing to have nothing to do or want, but to be deprived even of this...is tedium. Kierkegaard tells how if asked to choose between the two; between a perpetual state of boredom, or eternal bodily pain; he would choose—eternal bodily pain. Pessoa-himself, it would seem, would concur with the melancholy Dane.

"The house of Pessoa - Casa Fernando Pessoa"

EQUATOR by Miguel Sousa Tavares

2009-06-27T17:26:00.007+01:00

It is Lisbon in the year 1905 and our hero, Luis Bernardo Valenca, a 37-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping business, is revelling in the luxury of Lisbon's high society. Intellectually curious, he writes about politics in his spare time, believing that Portugal's vast empire is having a civilising effect on the far-off lands it has colonised.

But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos asks him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, the tiny island of Sao Tome e Principe, stuck out in the Atlantic off the coast of equatorial West Africa, whose economy rests almost entirely on its cocoa plantations.

However, the English believe that slavery still exists illegally in Sao Tome and intend to send a diplomatic envoy to check it out. (Of course the English, with their rival cocoa plantations in Africa, have their own reasons for trying to prevent the export of cocoa from Sao Tome).

As a gentleman used to a softer urban life, Luis Bernardo is ill-prepared for the challenges of plantation life, and he is shocked by the conditions under which the Angolan workers labour - although he is more than willing to engage romantically with the wife of the English consul, one of several candidates for his attentions.

"Equator "is a compelling and constantly surprising novel, casting light on a little-known corner of colonial life. Epic in scope, laced with emotional and moral complexity, "Equator" brings this simmering tropical community to life through the entanglements and betrayals of its cast of unforgettable characters. A best-seller in Portugal, and sold in many languages, "Equator" will also amaze and delights its English readers.

Product Details

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (July 7, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0747581746
ISBN-13: 978-0747581741
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Translator: Peter Bush

The "Travesseiros da Piriquita" a delicacy.

2009-06-27T14:44:00.031+01:00

The "Travesseiros da Piriquita" (The pillows of Piriquita) are the best ambassadors of Portugal, bringing the flavors of Sintra to the four corners of the world.

Meet the woman who over the past 50 years is the keeper of the secret of this delicacy. Leonor Cunha is the iron lady in front of a sweet deal, since 1862 remains in the female hands.

They are sold by the thousands every week-end. Some people walk dozens of miles and come on purpose to Sintra. Then you forget the cholesterol and additional pounds and .... you delight yourself with them.

The pillows of Piriquita have a long family tradition behind. Represent one of the most profitable business of the county and always with a woman at the helm: In the XIXth century began with Constance Gomes Periquita and two centuries later, Leonor Cunha, a 74 years old, leads with an iron hand. a business which always remained in the family.

"In 1862 it was founded by my great-grandmother's husband, Mrs. Constance Gomes Piriquita. Since them was always in the family and always with a woman in front: then went to Mrs. Nazareth, grandmother of my husband, was followed by her daughter (mother of my husband) Constance Cunha and now I want to move the rudder to my granddaughter. We are in the sixth generation. Clearly, a business made by women. I feel a great pride". - says Mrs. Leonor Cunha.

Our advice: You can´t miss this delicacy. After you tried it you will cry for more

OEIRAS

2009-06-26T23:37:00.005+01:00

Oeiras is a civil parish and a municipality in western Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal. It is in conurbation with Lisbon, the parish population is 34,850, and the entire Oeiras municipality has 168,475 inhabitants. The town (vila) of Oeiras is one of the most populous towns in Portugal. It is located by the end of the Tagus river (rio Tejo) mouth, across from Almada, in the Greater Lisbon subregion.

The parish dates back to the year 1208, when the area was settled by Christians from the north of Portugal. The municipality was founded in 1759 by the Marquis of Pombal, as a reward granted by king José I to his minister for having reconstructed downtown Lisbon after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, it was at the county that he built a magnificent manor-house, the Palace of the Counts of Oeiras, which still exhibits grand stone staircases, statues, splendid tiles and beautiful gardens with cascades and an aqueduct with arches. Oeiras was once part of a defensive line of maritime fortresses built along the Lisbon coast between the 16th and 17th centuries, including the Saint Lawrence Fort (known as Bugio, rising on a tiny islet in the middle of the River Tagus) and the São Julião da Barra Fort, both examples of the Renaissance military architecture.

Oeiras offers a range of new attractions and sites of interest, from the Fábrica da Pólvora (a former gunpowder factory from the 16th century which has been recovered for leisure and cultural purposes) to the Poets Park (a vast green space with statues of Portuguese poets and writers) and the Palace of the Royal Estate at Caxias, dating from the 18th century and surrounded by wonderful gardens.

Visitors may also benefit from different leisure and sports facilities, such as the sports complex of Jamor, the Maritime Walk (a seaside promenade to link Algés to the Torre beach, still unfinished) or the modern marina at Oeiras, prepared to welcome sixty ships, besides other parks and gardens.

SINTRA

2009-06-26T23:14:00.006+01:00

Sintra is situated in the north side of Serra of Sintra and offers numerous sights to visitors. Even the Portuguese kings had their summer residence there. You can find enchanted villas, gardens with rampant plants, fairy-tale castles in the middle of green mountain slopes. This recreational area isn't only popular for tourists but also for inhabitants of Lisbon. Long streams of cars from Lisbon are formed particularly on weekends. Hans Christian Andersen described Sintra as "the most beautiful place of Portugal".

The old town of Sintra is dominated by the Palácio Nacional de Sintra, which can be seen from far away at its gigantic conical chimneys. In the course of the centuries this popular summer residence of the kings got several rebuilding and modifications, so that today it consists of a mixture of different architectural styles. The Sala dos Brasões and Sala dos Cisnes are particularly remarkable. Wander through the lanes of the place and have a look in the souvenir shops. Send a postcard from the beautiful tiled post-office.

Palácio de Monserrate (Monserrate Palace)

2009-06-26T23:04:00.006+01:00

In 1858, Francis Cook hired James Knowels Jr. to design the pavilion that he wished to build in Monserrate. The architect, however, faced several limitations, since he had to restrict himself to the structures of DeVisme’s old neo-gothic mansion. Nevertheless, Knowels designed an original and very eclectic building. The facades of the three structures have gothic doors and windows.

Inside, the decorative exuberance of the plasterwork and the capitals emphasise the building’s oriental character. The superb gardens that surround the Palace were designed by Stockdale and Thomas Gargill, who, taking advantage of the Mountain’s micro-climate, created a magnificent park where one can still see more than 3 thousand exotic species.

Palácio de Monserrate (Monserrate Palace)
Estrada de Monserrate
2710-405 Sintra
Tel. 21 923 73 00
Opening hours: 16th September – 30th April, 10.30 a.m.- 1.00 p.m., and 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Last entry one hour before closing time
Admission: € 5
Guided tour (with advance booking): € 10

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1755 Lisbon earthquake

2009-06-24T11:28:00.032+01:00

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, took place on November 1, 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami and fires, which caused near-total destruction of Lisbon in Portugal, and adjoining areas. Geologists today estimate the Lisbon earthquake approached magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 km (120 mi) west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent. Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon alone between 10,000 and 100,000 people, making it one of the most destructive earthquakes in history. The earthquake accentuated political tensions in Portugal and profoundly disrupted the country's eighteenth-century colonial ambitions. The event was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European Enlightenment philosophers, and inspired major developments in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake studied scientifically for its effects over a large area, it led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.

The earthquake and tsunami

The Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault which marks the boundary between the African (Nubian) and the Eurasian continental plates runs westward from Gibraltar into the Atlantic. It shows a complex and active tectonic behavior, and is responsible for several important earthquakes that hit Lisbon before November 1755: eight in the 14th century, five in the 16th century (including the 1531 earthquake that destroyed 1,500 houses, and the 1597 earthquake when three streets vanished), and three in the 17th century. During the 18th century, earthquakes were reported in 1724 and 1750.

In 1755, the earthquake struck on the morning of 1 November, the Catholic holiday of All Saints' Day. Contemporary reports state that the earthquake lasted between three-and-a-half and six minutes, causing gigantic fissures five-metres (15 ft) wide to appear in the city centre. Survivors rushed to the open space of the docks for safety and watched as the water receded, revealing a sea floor littered by lost cargo and old shipwrecks. Approximately forty minutes after the earthquake, an enormous tsunami engulfed the harbour and downtown, rushing up the Tagus river, "so fast that several people riding on horseback ... were forced to gallop as fast as possible to the upper grounds for fear of being carried away". It was followed by two more waves. In the areas unaffected by the tsunami, fire quickly broke out, and flames raged for five days.

Lisbon was by far not the only Portuguese city affected by the catastrophe. Throughout the south of the country, in particular the Algarve, destruction was rampant. A tsunami destroyed some coastal fortresses in the Algarve and, in the lower levels, razed several houses. Almost all the coastal towns and villages of the Algarve were heavily damaged, except Faro, which was protected by the sandy banks of Ria Formosa. In Lagos, the waves reached the top of the city walls. Other towns of different Portuguese regions, like Peniche, Cascais, and even Covilhã which is located near the Serra da Estrela mountain range in central inland Portugal, were affected. The shock waves of the earthquake destroyed part of Covilhã's castle walls and its large towers. On the island of Madeira, Funchal and many smaller settlements suffered significant damage. Almost all of the ports in the Azores archipelago suffered most of their destruction from the tsunami, with the sea penetrating about 150 m inland.

Shocks from the earthquake were felt throughout Europe as far as Finland and North Africa, and according to some sources even in Greenland and in the Carribean. Tsunamis as tall as 20 metres (66 ft) swept the coast of North Africa, and struck Martinique and Barbados across the Atlantic. A three-metre (ten-foot) tsunami hit Cornwall on the southern English coast. Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, was also hit, resulting in partial destruction of the "Spanish Arch" section of the city wall.

Although seismologists and geologists had always agreed that the epicenter was in the Atlantic to the West of the Iberian peninsula, its exact location has been a subject of considerable debate. Early theories had propsed the Gorringe Ridge until simulations showed that a source closer to the shore of Portugal was required to comply with the observed effects of the tsunami. A seismic reflection survey of the ocean floor along the Azores-Gibraltar fault has revealed a 50 km-long thrust structure Southwest of Cape St. Vincent, with a dip-slip throw of more than 1 km, that might have been created by the primary tectonic event.

Economic and cultural impact

Economic historian Alvaro Pereira estimated that of Lisbon's population of approximately 200,000 people, some 30,000-40,000 were killed. Another 10,000 may have lost their lives in Morocco, although local reports are vague and damage reports relating to the November 1 event are difficult to separate from those of another series of local earthquakes that occurred on Nov. 18-19. The total death toll in Portugal, Spain and Morocco from the earthquake and the resulting fires and tsunami was estimated at 40,000 to 50,000 people.
Eighty-five percent of Lisbon's buildings were destroyed, including famous palaces and libraries, as well as most examples of Portugal's distinctive 16th-century Manueline architecture. Several buildings that had suffered little earthquake damage were destroyed by the subsequent fire. The new Opera House, opened just six months before (named the Phoenix Opera), burned to the ground. The Royal Ribeira Palace, which stood just beside the Tagus river in the modern square of Terreiro do Paço, was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami. Inside, the 70,000-volume royal library as well as hundreds of works of art, including paintings by Titian, Rubens, and Correggio, were lost. The royal archives disappeared together with detailed historical records of explorations by Vasco da Gama and other early navigators. The earthquake also damaged major churches in Lisbon, namely the Lisbon Cathedral, the Basilicas of São Paulo, Santa Catarina, São Vicente de Fora, and the Misericordia Church. The Royal Hospital of All Saints (the largest public hospital at the time) in the Rossio square was consumed by fire and hundreds of patients burned to death. The tomb of national hero Nuno Álvares Pereira was also lost. Visitors to Lisbon may still walk the ruins of the Carmo Convent, which were preserved to remind Lisboners of the destruction.

Relief and reconstruction efforts

The royal family escaped unharmed from the catastrophe; King Joseph I of Portugal and the court had left the city, after attending mass at sunrise, fulfilling the wish of one of the king's daughters to spend the holiday away from Lisbon. After the catastrophe, Joseph I developed a fear of living within walls, and the court was accommodated in a huge complex of tents and pavilions in the hills of Ajuda, then on the outskirts of Lisbon. The king's claustrophobia never waned, and it was only after Joseph's death that his daughter Maria I of Portugal began building the royal Ajuda Palace, which still stands on the site of the old tented camp. Like the king, the prime minister Sebastião de Melo (the Marquis of Pombal) survived the earthquake. When asked what was to be done, Pombal reportedly replied "Bury the dead and heal the living," and set upon organizing relief and rehabilitation efforts. Firefighters were sent to extinguish the raging flames, and teams of workers and ordinary citizens were ordered to remove the thousands of corpses before disease could spread. Contrary to custom and against the wishes of the Church, many corpses were loaded onto barges and buried at sea beyond the mouth of the Tagus. To prevent disorder in the ruined city, the Portuguese Army was deployed and gallows were constructed at high points around the city to deter looters; more than thirty people were publicly executed. The Army prevented many able-bodied citizens from fleeing, pressing them into relief and reconstruction work. The king and the prime minister immediately launched efforts to rebuild the city, hiring architects, engineers and organizing labor. In less than a year, the city was cleared of debris. Keen to have a new and perfectly ordained city, the king commissioned the construction of big squares, rectilinear, large avenues and widened streets — the new mottos of Lisbon. When the Marquis of Pombal was asked about the need for such wide streets, he is said to have replied: "one day they will be small." The Pombaline buildings are among the first seismically-protected constructions in the world. Small wooden models were built for testing, and earthquakes were simulated by marching troops around them. Lisbon's "new" downtown, known today as the Pombaline Downtown (Baixa Pombalina), is one of the city's famed attractions. Sections of other Portuguese cities, like the Vila Real de Santo António in Algarve, were also rebuilt along Pombaline principles. The Casa Pia, a Portuguese institution founded by Mary I, known as "Pia" (Pious, in English), and organized by Police Intendant Pina Manique in 1780, was founded following the social disarray of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Effect on society and philosophy

The earthquake had wide-ranging effects on the lives of the populace and intelligentsia. The earthquake had struck on an important church holiday and had destroyed almost every important church in the city, causing anxiety and confusion amongst the citizens of a staunch and devout Roman Catholic city and country, which had been a major patron of the Church. Theologians and philosophers would focus and speculate on the religious cause and message, seeing the earthquake as a manifestation of the anger of God. Some people thought the earthquake was a punishment for the massacre of thousands of unarmed natives and missionaries killed in South America (especially Paraguay). This massacre was ordered by the king of Portugal and carried out by Portuguese armies in 1754-1755.

The earthquake and its fallout strongly influenced the intelligentsia of the European Age of Enlightenment. The noted writer-philosopher Voltaire used the earthquake in Candide and in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon disaster"). Voltaire's Candide attacks the notion that all is for the best in this, "the best of all possible worlds", a world closely supervised by a benevolent deity. The Lisbon disaster provided a salutary counterexample. As Theodor Adorno wrote, " The earthquake of Lisbon sufficed to cure Voltaire of the theodicy of Leibniz" (Negative Dialectics 361). In the later twentieth century, following Adorno, the 1755 earthquake has sometimes been compared to the Holocaust as a catastrophe that transformed European culture and philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also influenced by the devastation following the earthquake, whose severity he believed was due to too many people living within the close quarters of the city. Rousseau used the earthquake as an argument against cities as part of his desire for a more naturalistic way of life.

The concept of the sublime, though it existed before 1755, was developed in philosophy and elevated to greater importance by Immanuel Kant, in part as a result of his attempts to comprehend the enormity of the Lisbon quake and tsunami. Kant published three separate texts on the Lisbon earthquake. The young Kant, fascinated with the earthquake, collected all the information available to him in news pamphlets, and used it to formulate a theory of the causes of earthquakes. Kant's theory, which involved the shifting of huge subterranean caverns filled with hot gases, was (though ultimately shown to be false) one of the first systematic modern attempts to explain earthquakes by positing natural, rather than supernatural, causes. According to Walter Benjamin, Kant's slim early book on the earthquake "probably represents the beginnings of scientific geography in Germany. And certainly the beginnings of seismology."

Werner Hamacher has claimed that the earthquake's consequences extended into the vocabulary of philosophy, making the common metaphor of firm "grounding" for philosophers' arguments shaky and uncertain: "Under the impression exerted by the Lisbon earthquake, which touched the European mind in one [of] its more sensitive epochs, the metaphor of ground and tremor completely lost their apparent innocence; they were no longer merely figures of speech" (263). Hamacher claims that the foundational certainty of Descartes' philosophy began to shake following the Lisbon earthquake.

The earthquake had a major impact on Portuguese politics. The prime minister was the favorite of the king, but the aristocracy despised him as an upstart son of a country squire (although the Prime Minister Sebastião de Melo is known today as Marquis of Pombal, the title was only granted in 1770, fifteen years after the earthquake). The prime minister in turn disliked the old nobles, whom he considered corrupt and incapable of practical action. Before November 1, 1755 there was a constant struggle for power and royal favor, but the competent response of the Marquis of Pombal effectively severed the power of the old aristocratic factions. However, silent opposition and resentment of King Joseph I began to rise, which would culminate with the attempted assassination of the king, and the subsequent elimination of the powerful Duke of Aveiro and the Távora family.

Development of Seismology

The prime minister's response was not limited to the practicalities of reconstruction. He ordered a query sent to all parishes of the country regarding the earthquake and its effects. Questions included:

* how long did the earthquake last?
* how many aftershocks were felt?
* what kind of damage was caused?
* did animals behave strangely?
* what happened in wells and water holes?

The answers to these and other questions are still archived in the Torre do Tombo, the national historical archive. Studying and cross-referencing the priests' accounts, modern scientists were able to reconstruct the event from a scientific perspective. Without the query designed by the Marquis of Pombal, this would have been impossible. Because the marquis was the first to attempt an objective scientific description of the broad causes and consequences of an earthquake, he is regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.

The geological causes of this earthquake and the seismic activity in the region continue to be discussed and debated by contemporary scientists.

CASCAIS

2009-06-24T10:52:00.020+01:00

Cascais is a coastal town 30 kilometres west of Lisbon, with about 35,000 residents in the town. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Nowadays it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists. Cascais is also a municipality with over 180,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Estoril Coast (named after Estoril, a civil parish), in Greater Lisbon subregion.It has an airport for general aviation serving the Lisbon Region in Tires (S. Domingos de Rana), "Aeroporto Municipal de Cascais".

The coastal settlement of Cascais originated in the 12th century, depending administratively on the town of Sintra, located to the North. In its humble beginnings, Cascais lived from the products of the sea and land, but already in the 13th century its fish production served the capital Lisbon, located nearby. During the 14th century the population increased to the outside of the walls of its castle. Its prosperity led to the administrative independence from Sintra in 1364. The village and its surroundings were owned by a feudal lord; the most famous of them was João das Regras (died 1404), a lawyer and professor of the University of Lisbon that was involved in the ascension of John I to power as the first King of the House of Aviz.

Since the Middle Ages, Cascais lived from fishing, maritime commerce (it was a stop for ships sailing to Lisbon), and from agriculture, producing wine, olive oil, cereals and fruits. Due to its location close to the Tagus estuary, it was also seen as a strategic post in the defence of Lisbon. Around 1488, King John II built a small fortress in the village, located by the sea. This mediaeval fortress was not enough to repel the invasion, in 1580, of Spanish troops led by the Duque of Alba, who took the village during the conflict that led to the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns. The fortress was enlarged towards the end of the 16th century by King Philip I (Philip II of Spain), turning it into a typical renaissance citadel with the characteristic flat profile and star-shaped floorplan. Various fortresses were built on the coast around Cascais during the 17th century, and many of them still exist.
In 1755, the great Lisbon earthquake destroyed a large portion of the village. Around 1774, the Marquis of Pombal, prime-minister of King José I, took protective measures for the commercialisation of the wine of Carcavelos and established the Royal Factory of Wool in the village, which existed until the early 19th century. During the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops, in 1807, the citadel of Cascais was occupied by the French, with General Junot staying some time in the village.

This situation of decadence started to change when King Luis II decided to turn the citadel of Cascais into his summer residence. From 1870 to 1908, the Royal Family came to Cascais to enjoy the sea, turning the somnolent fishing village into a cosmopolitan address. The citadel gained electric light in 1878, the first in the country, thanks to King Luís. The village gained better roads to Lisbon and Sintra, a casino, a bullfight ring, a sport club and improvements in the basic infrastructure for the population. The railway arrived in 1889. Many noble families built beautiful mansions in Cascais, as can still be seen in the centre and surroundings of the town.

In 1896, King Carlos I, a lover of all maritime activities, installed in the citadel the first oceanographic laboratory in Portugal. The King himself led a total of 12 scientific expeditions to the coast, only ended in 1908 with his assassination in Lisbon.

Another important step in the touristic development of the area was given in the first half of the 20th century in neighbouring Estoril, in which a casino was built and the infrastructure for luxury vacations was created around Monte Estoril.

Due to Portugal's neutrality in World War II and the town's elegance and royal past, Cascais became home to many of the exiled royal families of Europe, including those of Spain, Italy and Bulgaria.

Nowadays, Cascais and its surroundings are a famous vacation spot for the Portuguese and foreigners, aiming at both the "jet-set" and normal tourism, who seek to enjoy its beaches.

Today there is a large yacht harbour and several small sand beaches in and around town. Cascais is easily reached from Lisbon by car, (A5 Lisboa-Cascais highway), or by frequent inexpensive commuter trains. It has the ruins of a castle, an art and sea museum as well as parks and the charming cobbled streets of the historic centre. The town has many hotels and tourist apartments as well as many good restaurants of varying cost. It is a fine base to use for those visiting Lisbon and its environs who prefer to stay outside of the city yet in an equally urban and sophisticated environment.

Cascais is surrounded by popular beaches such as Guincho Beach to the west, and the lush Sintra mountains to the north. Some of its shoreline is cliffy, attracting tourists for its seascapes and other natural sights such as Boca do Inferno. It is also becoming a popular golf destination, with over 10 golf courses nearby. Surfing, sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing are also popular in the region around Cascais due to favourable weather, wind and sea conditions. In 2007, Cascais was the official host of the ISAF World Championship in sailing for dinghies and racing yachts.

The municipality also hosts international tennis and motorcycling events and hosted for many years the FIA F1 Portugal Grand Prix. The famous Estoril Casino is one of the largest in Europe. Near the casino is the "Hotel Palácio" (Palace Hotel), a 5 star hotel where scenes of 007 were shot.

Freiria Roman Villa Ruins

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Construction from the 2nd century, in Roman civil architecture style.
According to several researches, this was a "villa" or country-side residence of a very wealthy family, as concluded by the vestiges of the "domus", by the big agricultural area that encircled it and by the thermal complex that integrates the Villa.
The monumental granary can only be compared, in the Iberian Peninsula, to another copy in the Roman Villa of Monroy, nearby Cáceres, Spain.
The most recent archaeological excavations discovered a beautiful mosaic with characteristic drawings of the Roman culture.

Condes da Guarda Palace - Cascais

2009-06-22T19:27:00.003+01:00

Condes da Guarda Palace was built in the 17th century yet suffered considerable transformations in the 18th century.
Nowadays the Palace houses the headquarters of the Cascais Municipality Council and the adaptation of the building caused an enlargement of its façade, whose main characteristic are the glazed tiles panels with representations of Saint Sebastian, Saint Anthony, Saint Martial, Saint Matthew, Mark the Evangelist, Saint Jerome, Luke the Evangelist and Saint John.

Duque de Palmela Palace

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With a residential and civil architecture, the Palace has a construction in mixed masonry and brick, with limestone and wood.
The Palace is situated over the water, on a rocky promontory. This is one of the most visible constructions in Cascais.
This monument is private property.

Conde de Castro Guimarães Palace

2009-06-22T19:17:00.012+01:00

The Palace was built in the beginning of the 20th century, by Francisco Vilaça, for a summer residence for JorgeO’Neil. The building features eclectic elements, inviting visitors to enter a kingdom of fantasy and wonder celebrated in this 19th century revival of the era of romance.

The Palace has a limestone outside, with mixed masonry. The several floors are connected by decorative towers and panels of glazed tiles. Inside, there are several rooms with 17th and 20th century remarkable glazed tiles.
The building is entrenched in the limit of the coastal flange, beaten by an arm of sea, to which it has direct access.
Since 1931 the Palace houses a Museum with a wide collection of furniture, porcelain, painting, jewellery and a library.
The gardens are also utterly pleasant, specially once visited the interior of the Palace.

Visitor information:

Address:
Av. Rei Humberto II de Itália
Parque Marechal Carmona,
2750 Cascais

Tel: (351) 214815304

Email: mccg@cm-cascais.pt

Opening Times:

Tuesday to Friday: 10h00 t0 17h00
Saturday and Sunday: 10h00 to 13h00 and 14h00 to 17h00.
Closed: Mondays, January 1st, Easter Sunday, May 1st and Dezember 25

American type Windmill - Alcabideche

2009-06-22T19:08:00.006+01:00

The ‘American type’ Windmill is situated in Alcabideche, on the lovely Cascais department, and constitute nowadays an important heritage of an emerging rural industrialized world.

Previously integrated in the S. Martinha Estate, was accepted by the Cascais Municipality in order to preserve this important legacy, that moulded the lifestyle of the local populations.

In fact, this is a region that uses milling systems since remote periods, at least since the 11th century.

This type of mill was first produced in the 19th century in the United States of America, and arrived in the beginning of the 20th century to Portugal, as the urban area was developing and the consumption of farinaceous products, such as bread, was reaching its peak.
This was an easy to install and efficient structure, therefore diffused with success in all the region.

The ‘American type’ Windmill is nowadays opened to the public as a museum that shows off the importance of this kind of structure and its production throughout the years, for a great heritage end ethnography education and preservation.

The visits to the museum are scheduled in advance for groups with more than 10 people.

Visitor Information:

Address:

Moinho de Armação Tipo Americano
Rua Guilherme Fernandes, loja A, lote 4
2755 Alcabideche

Tel/Fax: (351) 214601763

Email: gab.municipe@cm-cascais.pt

Opening Times:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday : From 10h00 a.m to 13h00 and from 14h00 t0 16h00.

Velho do Guincho Fort

2009-06-22T18:42:00.005+01:00

Velho do Guincho Fort is a military coastal defense fortress built in the 17th century with an architectural mannerist style, situated by the sea in between the Guincho and the Abano Beach.

The facades are very sober and the frontispiece only has a door with a round arch and the royal arms.

São Teodósio da Cadaveira Fort

2009-06-22T18:37:00.005+01:00

The São Teodósio da Cadaveira Fort was built in 1643, in order to protect the lisboa region Coast from enemies attacks, and to defend as well the entrance of the Tagus river. The fort has a Mannerist military architecture with a quadrangular plant and the battery facing the ocean.

Of the bulwarks that reinforced the fortress on the ocean side barely nothing exists these days. There are three watchtowers and from the medallion that existed on the top of door, only remains the stone foundation.

São Pedro do Estoril Fort

2009-06-22T18:30:00.004+01:00

São Pedro do Estoril Fort is a military fortress of defense of the coast built in the 17th century XVII, in a Mannerist architecture style, in a strategically spot for the defense of Lisboa region and the entrance of the Tagus river.

From the exterior defensive structures on the inland side, there is nothing left.
Nowadays the Fort belongs to the Portuguese State but is rented ,and in its interior there is the “Forte Velho” night club.