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Image taken from The Portuguese Genealogy / Genealogia dos Reis de Portugal. Originally published/produced in Portugal (Lisbon), 1530-1534. This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections.
The spread of Romanesque in Portugal followed the north–south path of the Reconquista, specially during the reign of Afonso Henriques, Count Henry's son and first King of Portugal. In Coimbra , Afonso Henriques created the Santa Cruz Monastery , one of the most important of the monastic foundations of the time, although the current building ...
The Arch of the New Gate (Portuguese: Arco da Porta Nova) is a Baroque and Neoclassical arch, designed by André Soares in the late 18th century, in the civil parish of Sé, municipality of Braga, in northern Portugal. The triumphal arch which decorates the western entrance to the medieval wall of the city, was opened in 1512 and traditionally ...
However, much original Manueline architecture in Portugal was lost or damaged beyond restoration in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and subsequent tsunami. In Lisbon , the Ribeira Palace , the residence of King Manuel I, and the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos were destroyed, along with several churches.
The Kingdom of Portugal [3] was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also known as the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves after 1415, and as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves between 1815 and 1822.
Portrait of Fernando Bissaya Barreto wearing academic regalia.A scholar and politician, he was the founder of Portugal dos Pequenitos.. The construction of the park began in 1938, an initiative of Fernando Bissaya Barreto [], a professor at the Medical School of the University of Coimbra and politician, following a project developed by architect Cassiano Branco.
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is a British-Canadian children's animated series about the adventures of a young boy named Simon, who has a magic blackboard. [2] Things that Simon draws on the chalkboard become real in the Land of Chalk Drawings, a parallel world which Simon can enter by climbing over a fence near his home with a ladder.
The square is dedicated to the restoration of the independence of Portugal in 1640, after 60 years of Spanish domination. The obelisk in the middle of the square, inaugurated in 1886, carries the names and dates of the battles fought during the Portuguese Restoration War, in 1640.