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Ara De Trajano
The Ara de Trajano is a Roman inscription made on a granite boulder located in Caldas das Taipas, Braga District, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... with an honorific inscription to Trajan, dated 103. It was classified as a Monumento Nacional(National Monument) by the Decreto of 16-06-1910, Diário do Governo, No. 136, of 23-06-1910. It is also known as Lápide das Taipas, Ara de Nerva or Penedo da Moura. The inscription is on one of the faces of a granite block cut into three faces, each of them approximately three meters high. The inscription reads:''IMP(ERATOR) CAES(AR) NERVA/ TRAIANVS AVG(VSTVS), GER(MANICVS), DAC(ICVS)/ POT(IFEX) MAX(IMVS), TRIB(VNITIA) POT(ESTATE) VII/ IMP(ERATOR) IIII CO(N)S(UL) V, P(ATER) P(ATRIAE)]'' ''("Emperor Cesar Nerva Trajan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldas Das Taipas
Caldelas (also known as Caldas das Taipas and, in the past, S. Tomé de Caldelas) is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Guimarães. With an area of 2.69 km² and 6304 inhabitants (2021 census). Its population density is 2 343.5 hab./km². History The village seat of the parish was raised to the category of town by decree no. 30 518 of June 19, 1940, under the name of Caldas das Taipas. The seat of the parish of Caldelas is known as Caldas das Taipas, due to the hot springs recognized since the Roman presence in the Iberian Peninsula. It is located on the road that connects the cities of Guimarães and Braga (EN 101). It is about 7 km from the first and 14 km from the second. From the time of the Romans, who used the thermal waters of Caldelas with medicinal qualities, some testimonies remain, such as the Ara de Trajano, with inscriptions to the emperor. Several vestiges of that time were found in the place where the first bathhouse was installed, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braga District
The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) in the northeast and Porto in the south. Its area is and it has a population of 831,368. Municipalities The district comprises 14 municipalities: * Amares * Barcelos * Braga * Cabeceiras de Basto * Celorico de Basto * Esposende * Fafe * Guimarães * Póvoa de Lanhoso * Terras de Bouro * Vieira do Minho * Vila Nova de Famalicão * Vila Verde * Vizela Geography The district of Braga has a very rugged terrain, dominated by high altitudes to the east, close to the Spanish border and the border with the Vila Real district, and going down towards the western coast, cutting through the valleys of several rivers that flow from the north-east to the south-west. The highest altitudes are found in the Serra Amarela (1,361m), on the border wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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