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The Abreu Agency was established in Porto in 1840 by Bernardo Abreu. At the time, emigration from northern Portugal and Galicia to Brazil and Venezuela was significant, and Abreu, a noted businessman in Porto, opened his agency to offer passport and visa services, as well as sales of train tickets to Lisbon and ship passages to and from South America.
Although Portugal was neutral, the airport was used by allied flights en route to Gibraltar, North Africa and Cairo. [23] At the end of the war the airport developed rapidly, and by 1946 was used by major airlines such as Air France, British European Airways, Iberia, KLM, Sabena, Pan Am and Trans World Airlines [citation needed]. By 1954 the ...
Lisbon (/ ˈ l ɪ z b ən / ⓘ LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [2] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [3] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [4]
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens by L. Sprague de Camp, Twayne Publishers, 1953. The Viagens Interplanetarias series is a sequence of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the late 1940s and written under the influence of contemporary space opera and sword and planet stories, particularly Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian novels.
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture (Viagem a Portugal in Portuguese) is a non-fiction book on Portugal by Portuguese author José Saramago. It was first published in 1981 by Círculo de Leitores e Editorial Caminho. [1]
In the 12th century, the area was a zone of pastures, vineyards, farms and vegetable gardens and marked one of the entrances and exits to the city of Lisbon.
The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens is a 1953 collection of science fiction stories by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the fifth book in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers , and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971 with a cover by illustrator Bob Pepper .
Coliseu dos Recreios (also known as Coliseu de Lisboa) is a multi-purpose auditorium with a capacity of up to 4000. Teatro D. Fernando was a theatre in the downtown Lisbon Baixa area between 1849 and 1860. Teatro do Ginásio was a theatre built in 1845 that mainly concentrated on performances of comedy shows. Damaged by fire in 1921, it ...