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OtherSouth and Southeast Station (Estação Sul e Sueste) - LisbonThe South and Southeast Station (Estação Sul e Sueste) is a river station located in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon, where you can catch the boats that make sightseeing tours on the Tagus. Next to Doca da Marinha, it is a point with history by the Tagus, (...)
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OtherSouto Moura won the Pritzker prize 2011The architect Eduardo Souto Moura won the Pritzker prize 2011, what is come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor. This is the second time on the history of the prize that a Portuguese architect has been chosen . The (...)
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OtherSports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2010 magazine in PortugalThe 2010 annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is out; and it features, for the first time, Portugal as backdrop to some of the most beautiful women and alluring bathing suits in the world. The Swimsuit Issue is the highest selling edition of (...)
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OtherSuggested visitsOne of the best ways of getting to know Santarém is by following one of the thematic tours. Those presented here have taken as their criterion the artistic movements that accompanied the city´s social and economic development. If possible, choose (...)
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OtherTeatro CamõesThe Camões Theatre was designed by the architect, Manuel Salgado, in respect for the guidelines designed for the public spaces of Expo ’98, which he also designed. Facing two buildings with a very prominent volumetry - the Pavilion of Knowledge and (...)
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OtherTeatro Carlos AlbertoThe twelve-year span separating the destruction by fire of the Real Teatro de São João (1908) from the opening of the new Teatro de São João (1920) meant a golden opportunity which the other theatres in Porto quickly seized. All of them carried out (...)
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OtherTeatro Nacional D. Maria IIFounded by Almeida Garrett, and inaugurated in 1846, the D. Maria II National Theatre, designed by Italian architect Fortunato Lodi, has a neoclassical architectural style. The Theatre was virtually destroyed by fire in 1964 and re-opened to the (...)
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OtherTeatro Nacional São JoãoBy initiative of Chief Magistrate Francisco de Almada e Mendonça and a group of private investors, the Real Teatro de São João was built from a project by Italian scenographer and architect Vincenzo Mazzoneschi. Officially inaugurated on May 13, (...)
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OtherTeatro TivoliInaugurated in 1924, the Tivoli Theatre designed by the architect, Raul Lino presents a facade of neoclassical inspiration, and a sumptuous Louis XIV style interior decoration.The building was subject to restoration works in the 1990s that restored (...)
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OtherThe "Mascarados" (masked figures) in LazarimIn Lazarim, in the municipality of Lamego, the Carnival cycle encompasses two periods. The first starts on the fifth Sunday before Fat Sunday, and the second takes place between Fat Sunday and Ash Wednesday. The various celebrations preceding the (...)
