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List Of Festivals In Portugal
The following is a list of festivals in Portugal. By type Film festivals * Black & White Festival (2004-) - Porto *Caminhos do Cinema Português - Coimbra * Curtas Vila do Conde (1993-) - Vila do Conde *Doclisboa - Lisbon * Douro Film Harvest * Estoril Film Festival - Estoril * Fantasporto - Porto * FEST New Directors New Films Festival (2004-) - Espinho *Festroia International Film Festival (1985-) - Setúbal * Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (1997-) - Lisbon * Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Cinema no Feminino (2014-) - Lisbon Music festivals *Avante! Festival (1976-) - Amora, Seixal * Boom Festival (1997-) - Idanha-a-Nova * Cascais Jazz Festival (1971-1988) - Cascais * Festival da Canção (1964-) * Festival Forte (2014-) - Montemor-o-Velho *Festival Sudoeste (1997-) - Zambujeira do Mar * FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo (1999-) - Sines *Laurus Nobilis Music Famalicão (2015-) - Vila Nova de Famalicão *NOS Alive (2007-) - Algés (Oeiras) * NOS Primavera Sound (2012-) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setúbal
Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the times of Al-Andalus the city was known as ''Shaṭūbar'' (Andalusian Arabic: ). In the 19th century, the port was called ''Saint Ubes'' in English, and ''Saint-Yves'' in French. The municipal holiday is 15 September, which marks the date in 1860 when Pedro V of Portugal, King Pedro V of Portugal officially recognised Setúbal as a city. City information The city of Setúbal is located on the northern bank of the Sado River estuary, approximately south of Portugal's capital, Lisbon. It is also the seat of the Setúbal District and formerly in the historic Estremadura Province (1936-1976), Estremadura Province. In the beginning of the 20th century, Setúbal was the most important center of Portugal's fishing industry, particularly sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FMM Sines – Festival Músicas Do Mundo
FMM may refer to: * Confederation of Malagasy Workers (Malagasy: ') * Fast multipole method * Functional membrane microdomain * Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy, in Markham, Ontario, Canada * Fellowship in Manufacturing Management, a program of Cranfield University, England * Festival Músicas do Mundo, a Portuguese music festival * Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band * Flea Market Music, an American publisher * Florida Maritime Museum * Fort Morgan Municipal Airport, in Colorado, United States * France Médias Monde * Franciscan Missionaries of Mary * Free Media Movement * Mainz-Mombach station, in Germany * Memmingen Airport Memmingen Airport , also known as ''Allgäu Airport Memmingen'', is an international airport in the town of Memmingerberg near Memmingen, the third-largest city in the Swabia region of Bavaria. It is the smallest of the three commercial airport ..., in Germany * World Federation for the Metallurgic Industry, a former global union federatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zambujeira Do Mar
Zambujeira do Mar is a former civil parish in the municipality of Odemira, Alentejo region, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the parish São Teotónio. Odemira Municipality in the Portuguese. It has a population of 911 inhabitants, dispersed over an area of . History The most recent civil parish established in Odemira, Zambujeira do Mar was deannexed from the neighbouring civil parish of São Teotónio on 30 June 1989. It merged back into São Teotónio in 2013. Geography As its name implies, Zambujeira do Mar is located along the western coast of the Alentejo, south of Cabo Sardão, an area cut by various valleys, cliffs and faults, interspersed by small beaches consisting of clear fine sands, such as Zambujeira, Alteirinhos, Nossa Senhora e Tonel. The coast of Zambujeira is included within the Nature Park of the Southwest Alentejo and St. Vincent Coast (), covering the various folding clifftops and small beaches/coves of the coast. In addition to the central coastal beac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Sudoeste
The Sudoeste Festival (), currently named MEO Sudoeste for sponsorship reasons, is a music festival that takes places annually since 1997, in August, in Odemira, in the southwest of Portugal. It is organized by live entertainment company Música no Coração and is currently sponsored by the Portuguese telecommunications company MEO. The festival started as a rock festival. Over the years, it has featured a considerable variety of headliners, such as Marylin Manson, Blur, Sonic Youth, The Cure, UB40, Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Daft Punk, Björk, Faith No More, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. It had a stage dedicated to reggae music from 2005 to 2013. In the early 2010s, it gradually changed its musical focus to mainly hip-hop, mainstream pop and electronic dance music. Editions 1997 The first edition of the Sudoeste Festival happened on 8, 9 and 10 August 1997. Its main sponsor was Sagres beer. 1998 The second edition took place on 7, 8 and 9 August 1998. The main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montemor-o-Velho
Montemor-o-Velho () is a town and concelho, municipality of the Coimbra District, in Portugal. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 26,171, in an area of 228.96 km². History In 711, the Muslim invasion of Iberia, Arab occupation of the Iberian Peninsula began. Montemor-o-Velho, a fluvial-maritime port of great importance at the time, was the target of conquests and reconquests throughout the 9th to the 12th centuries: in 848 the first Reconquista, Christian reconquest of Montemor was made by king Ramiro I of Asturias, Ramiro I of León, who gave the castle to abbot João, who resisted in the same year the siege made by the caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman II. In 878 Afonso III the Great occupied Coimbra and proceeded to repopulate the Mondego River, Mondego line; on December 2, 990 there was another onslaught of Arabs led by Almanzor, Almançor, who take the castle of Montemor-o-Velho, and its government is given to Froila Gonçalves, a descendant of the Portucalen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Forte
Festival Forte is an annual festival that takes place inside the Montemor-o-Velho Castle in Portugal, during the month of August, with the main focus on electronic music, visual and performing arts. Overview Festival Forte takes place at Montemor-o-Velho Castle, a National heritage site, National Heritage site, and a cultural landmark in Portugal. It has been listed b6AMas one of The World’s Most Unique Festival Locations. The first editions of Festival Forte, used Video Mapping techniques to enhance the physical characteristics (historical and architectural) of the castle being nominated by Resident Advisor as one of the Top 10 Festivals of August 2015 The stage design allows transparency to make the framing within the walls of the castle that receives large screens for the support of the visual spectacle. The rest of the space is also used as an audiovisual installation, such is the case of the Church of Sta. Maria de Alcáçova. About the stage's visualsCrack Magazinesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Da Canção
Festival da Canção (; "Song Festival") or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) to choose the for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was first held in 1964. History Like most music festivals in isolated countries, the Festival da Canção was a very important event for the still-incipient Portuguese music industry of the 1960s and 1970s. Left-wing composers and writers would try to squeeze subversive lyrics in the contest, with great effect. After the 1974 revolution, incidentally code-triggered by that year's winner being played on national radio, Portugal became increasingly open to foreign culture, thus deeming the Festival as a lesser musical event, dominated by below-standard pop songs with little or no impact in the industry, although remaining a popular TV show. The 1990s saw a recovery of the contest's image, then considered a viable means for a new singer to start a career. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascais
Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Portugal, tourist destination. Its Cascais Marina, marina hosts events such as the America's Cup and the town of Estoril, part of the Cascais municipality, hosts conferences such as the Horasis Global Meeting. Cascais's history as a popular seaside resort originated in the 1870s, when King Luís I of Portugal and the House of Braganza, Portuguese royal family made the seaside town their residence every September, thus also attracting members of the Portuguese nobility, who established a summer community there. Cascais is known for the many members of royalty who have lived there, including King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, when he was the Duke of Windsor, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and King Umberto II of Italy. Exiled Cuban president Fulgencio Batista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascais Jazz Festival
The Cascais Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival held in Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera. History The first Cascais Jazz Festival took place on November 20, 1971, in the Dramático de Cascais pavilion in Portugal, organized by the fado singer João Braga and the jazz critic and specialist Luís Villas-Boas. It was the first international jazz festival to take place in Portugal. Miles Davis performed at it—making his first appearance in Portugal—as did Dexter Gordon, Phil Woods, and The Giants of Jazz ( Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Dizzy Gillespie). Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...'s performance began some controversy when during his gig his bassist, Charlie Haden, dedicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idanha-a-Nova
Idanha-a-Nova () is a town and surrounding municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, in east-central Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 9,716, in an area of 1416.34 km2, making it one of the largest and least densely populated municipalities in Portugal as well as the first Portuguese municipality by population ageing. King Alfonso II (1211-1223) confirmed its charter in 1219 renaming the village with the current place names (Idanha-a-Nova) to distinguish it from the old Idanha (hereinafter Idanha-a-Velha), 18 kilometers away. The municipal holiday is the Monday 15 days after Easter. The incumbent mayor is Armindo Moreira Palma Jacinto, representing the Socialist Party. History There are numerous prehistoric vestiges of human occupation throughout the municipality of Idanha-a-Nova (Idanha "the new"), such as menhirs and tapirs. The Romans had an important influence, namely in the civil parishes of Monsanto, Idan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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