Leiria is a city and municipality in the Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 in an area of 565.09 square kilometres (218.18 sq mi). It is the seat of its own district and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria-Fátima. The city is part of the historical province of Beira Litoral.
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992. He is described as one of the biggest political and intellectual figures of Portugal in the 20th century.
Setúbal is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of 230.33 km2 (88.9 sq mi). The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area, about 50 kilometres from Lisbon downtown by road.
Jorge Maria O'Neill was the head of a branch of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, which has resided in Portugal since the 18th century.
Corroios is a civil parish in the municipality of Seixal in the district of Setúbal, Portugal. It is part of the Lisbon metropolitan area. The population in 2011 was 47,661, in an area of 17.11 km2. Corroios remains as the second most populous town in Portugal, after Algueirão-Mem Martins. The town is located on the south side of the Tagus River, opposite Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
The Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation is a church situated in the civil parish of Porches, in the municipality of Lagoa in the Portuguese region of Algarve.
Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas, in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry. Swift and de Freitas chose Porches for its history as a pottery centre, dating back for many centuries, and for its clay pits.
Manuel Vilarinho is a Portuguese painter who lives and works in Lisbon. Vilarinho has a degree in painting from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa. He works in the fields of painting and drawing. "...the guiding principle that organizes Manuel Vilarinho's landscapes is the walk, the slow enjoyment of the visible though completed by the fleetingness of someone who drives on the road, taking in, in and extremely quick way, such visual information as stands out from the bulk of natural landscape." He began taking part in exhibitions in the 1980s, and, in 1985, had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums. Since 1981, he has taken part in numerous national and international group exhibitions.
Diogo de Macedo was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, and writer.
The Secondary School Luís de Camões is a secondary school located in the civil parish of Arroios, in the municipality and Portuguese capital of Lisbon, classified as a Monumento de Interesse Público in 2012.
Álvaro Perdigão was a Portuguese painter.
Artur Pastor, was a Portuguese photographer.
João José Vaz was a Portuguese painter and decorator who specialized in maritime subjects.
The Escola Artística António Arroio is a secondary school in Lisbon, Portugal that specializes in the applied arts.
Lino António da Conceição was a Portuguese artist known for his Modernist paintings. He made many friezes, frescos, stained glass and ceramic panels for public buildings and private collections in Portugal. He taught in several schools and was director for many years at the Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio in Lisbon, having an influence over hundreds of artists, mostly painters and designers.
Sebastião Artur Cardoso da Gama was a Portuguese poet.
Margarida Tengarrinha was a Portuguese teacher, writer, artist and illustrator. As a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) she was active as an opponent of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime that governed Portugal between 1926 and 1974, playing a role in document forging and publication of the Party's magazine Avante!. She spent two years in Moscow with the future leader of the PCP, Álvaro Cunhal, and then worked in Bucharest, Romania on a radio station broadcasting to Portugal. After the overthrow of the regime, she became a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic. She later wrote memoirs, taught at a Senior University, illustrated books and exhibited works of art.
Alice Schmidt Constant Lafourcade Rey Colaço was a Portuguese painter, modernist illustrator, lyric singer, set designer and costume designer.
Fernanda Fragateiro is a Portuguese artist and sculptor who mainly collaborates with architects and landscape architects.
Maria Eugénia Barreirinhas Cunhal Medina was a Portuguese journalist, poet, writer, teacher and translator who also used the pseudonym Maria André. A communist activist, she was the sister of the General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), Álvaro Cunhal.
