José Cardoso Pires was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.
The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historical city of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo.
José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museu Nacional de Lisboa in Lisbon. He published numerous works on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880s he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Portugal. The zoology collection at the Lisbon Museum is called the Bocage Museum in his honor.
Dr José Tomás de Sousa Martins was a doctor renowned for his work amongst the poor in Lisbon, Portugal. After his death, a secular cult arose around his personality, in which he is thanked for "miraculous" cures.
Lídia Jorge is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing, the so-called "Post Revolution Generation". Her books have won international recognition and have been published in many countries.
A cantiga is a medieval monophonic song, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric. Over 400 extant cantigas come from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, narrative songs about miracles or hymns in praise of the Holy Virgin. There are near 1700 secular cantigas but music has only survived for a very few: six cantigas de amigo by Martín Codax and seven cantigas de amor by Denis of Portugal.
The Cancioneiro da Ajuda is a collection of Galician-Portuguese lyric poems probably dating from the last quarter of the 13th century. It is the oldest of the Galician-Portuguese cancioneiros with secular music.
In the Middle Ages, the Galician-Portuguese lyric, also known as trovadorismo in Portugal and trobadorismo in Galicia, was a lyric poetic school or movement. All told, there are around 1680 texts in the so-called secular lyric or lírica profana. At the time Galician-Portuguese was the language used in nearly all of Iberia for lyric poetry. From this language derives both modern Galician and Portuguese. The school, which was influenced to some extent by the Occitan troubadours, is first documented at the end of the twelfth century and lasted until the middle of the fourteenth, with its zenith coming in the middle of the thirteenth century, centered on the person of Alfonso X, The Wise King. It is the earliest known poetic movement in Galicia or Portugal and represents not only the beginnings of but one of the high points of poetic history in both countries and in Medieval Europe. Modern Galicia has seen a revival movement called Neotrobadorismo.
The Lisbon Synagogue (formally, the Synagogue Shaaré Tikvah is a historical Portuguese synagogue situated in the civil parish of Santo António, in the municipality of Lisbon.
José Eduardo Franco is a Portuguese historian, journalist, poet and essayist.
Bombay Before the British (BBB) was a three-year research project in the fields of History of Architecture and History of Urbanism, funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through its Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).
Rogério Miguel Puga holds a PhD on Anglo-Portuguese Studies, was a Lecturer at Institute of Education and Sciences,, Assistant Professor at the University of Macao (2007–2009) and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. He is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon. He taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon in 2011-2012, 2013-2014, and at IADE (2015). He is a research collaborator at Centre for the Humanities and the Centre for Comparative Studies. He is the editor of the forthcoming European Journal of Macao Studies (Portugal), subject editor for the journal Romance Studies ., and member of the editorial board of "Anais de História de Além-Mar" and "Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses".
Augusto Carlos Teixeira de AragãoComA • CavC • CavA • CavTE was a Portuguese Army officer, doctor, numismatist, archaeologist and historian. As an officer of the Portuguese Army, he retired with the rank of general. Teixeira de Aragão is considered one of the "fathers" of Portuguese numismatics.
The Pillory of Bragança is a 15th-century sculpted stone column with symbolic political, administrative and judicial significance, erected over a four-step octagonal platform, located in the civil parish of Sé, Santa Maria e Meixedo, municipality of Bragança. It consists of a cylindrical column erected over a square platform, sculpted with zoomorphic symbols, anthropomorphic scenes and the shield of the city of Bragança. Its structural design and sculptural ornamentation is characteristics of the era; the column is classified as a National Monument since 1910.
The Museu da Música is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum primarily features musical instruments; among its holdings is a 1725 Stradivarius cello once owned and played by King Luís I of Portugal (ruled 1861-1889.
Beatriz Amélia Alves de Sousa Oliveira Basto da Silva was born in Anadia, Portugal in 1944 and majored in History at the University of Coimbra with the thesis of Historiografia - o Conceito de História em António Caetano do Amaral.
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Miguel Vicente de Abreu was a Goan historian, a minor official of the Imprensa Nacional. He belonged to the group of Goan intellectuals who were trained and sponsored by Cunha Rivara while he was the state secretary of State of Portuguese India.
Tourism in Lisbon is popular. The city of Lisbon and the Lisbon metropolitan area attracts a significant number of tourists each year, drawn to its historical and cultural offerings.
José Joaquim dos Santos was a Portuguese music teacher and late Baroque-period composer who specialised in writing sacred music. He was listed by two authors as being among Portugal's "most outstanding eighteenth-century composers."
