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Casa do Penedo (Portuguese for Stone House or House of the Rock) is an architectural monument located between Celorico de Basto and Fafe, in northern Portugal. [1] It received its name because it was built from four large boulders that serve as the foundation, walls and ceiling of the house.
The Mateus Palace (Portuguese: Palácio de Mateus, Solar de Mateus or Casa de Mateus) is a palace located in the civil parish of Mateus, municipality of Vila Real, Portugal. The three primary buildings are the manor, the winery and the chapel. The winery buildings date from the 16th century and were modified in the 1800s.
The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego ("House of Stories Paula Rego") is a museum in Cascais, Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera, designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura to house some of the works of the artist Paula Rego (1935 – 2022).
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
Portugal's central bank is the Banco de Portugal, which is an integral part of the European System of Central Banks. The largest Portuguese banks are Banco Comercial Português and the state-owned Caixa Geral de Depósitos. [139] Portuguese banks hold strategic stakes in other sectors of the economy, including the insurance sector.
The Navigator Company (formerly known as Portucel Soporcel Group) is a Portuguese pulp and paper company.. The Navigator Company has a productive capacity of 1.6 million tonnes of paper and 1.4 million tonnes of pulp, [9] with 1,380 km 2 of forest, and an annual turnover of over €1.5 billion (US$1.9 billion).
The Avner Cohen Casa Chabad (Avner Cohen Chabad House) is a Jewish community centre situated in Cascais in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It includes a library that places special emphasis on works about the Torah , either those written by Portuguese Jewish scholars or printed in Portugal in the late 15th century.
The building at 6 rua Mouzinho da Silveira dates back to 1896. The house is located in a central area of Lisbon, next to the recently opened Avenida da Liberdade (1886). With four floors – basement, ground floor, first floor and attic – and a garden area, the 19th-century Parisian-like design perfectly fits the surrounding architecture.