Notes about Portugal

Geography This colour: if in Portuguese.
  • * Portugal (Europe, etc.) • Portugal: maps (Lisboa and other cities.) • EU: Portugal
• * Wine (See "Regions": wine regions)
General
  • * "Biblioteca Nacional" (National Library), "Biblioteca Nacional Digital" (Nat'l Digital Lib.)
History
  • * Portuguese History.pdf (.doc). Founded 1143 (881 years old). • Portuguese History (in bad English) (Source: APH, History Teachers' Association)
• History of Portugal (Source: "HistoryWorld.net") • History of Portugal (Source: former "Pro-researcher")
Arts
  • * Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Lisbon Tile Museum) ← Portuguese Museums Network
• Book: "Portuguese Tiles from the National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon"

• * Igreja de N. S. de Fátima (other: photos) by architect (also for IST) Pardal Monteiro (to go there...)

Painters
 

• * Souza Cardoso (1887–1918), Carlos Botelho, Vieira da Silva, etc. • Museu de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (follow "Souza Cardoso")

• * Almada Negreiros (1893–1970) ⇒ "Retrato de Fernando Pessoa" (1954), "Auto-retrato" • At Infopédia

• * Henrique Medina (1901–1988) ⇒ "Girl with hen", "Tea time"

Musicians
  • Carlos Seixas (1704–1742) • J. Vianna da Motta (1868–1948) • Guilhermina Suggia (1885–1950) • Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955)
• * António Fragoso (1897–1918): * sound"Port. Music", soundAtrium
• * Armando José Fernandes (1906–1983). Ex-Classical composers database.pdf • Carlos Paredes (1925–2004); at the Univ. of Hamburg
• Music (popular): M. Portugal.zip (7Mb), M. Br Es Fr It.zip (13Mb)
Portuguese language
 

• Fernando Pessoa (listen)

• Books: (Amazon) Portuguese Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary, The Rough Guide to Portuguese (A Dictionary Phrasebook),
  The Rough Guide to European Languages Dictionary Phrasebook: Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish
• On-line: Portuguese dictionary and grammar (gramática) • Glance at a Portuguese verb: provar, "to prove". * Some vocabulary.xls.
 
 
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