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Póvoa De Varzim Holiday
Póvoa de Varzim Holiday, Saint Peter Festivals (''Festas de São Pedro'') or Saint Peter Night (''Noite de São Pedro'') is celebrated annually on June 29, Saint Peter's Day in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is a late midsummer festival and the last of the three Portuguese popular saints — ''Santos Populares''. It is celebrated with the lighting of bonfires, dances, competitions between quarters and diverse parties. Saint Peter festival includes the "rusgas", in which inhabitants of one quarter (bairro) visit in a parade other quarters in the evening of June 28. Women are dressed as tricana poveira (women dressed in a traditional costume with a sensual walking style). Each neighborhood has its own festival, neighborhood colors and altar to Saint Peter. Traditionally, people often eat grilled sardines with bread, caldo verde, and wine in the streets, with a bonfire nearby where people gather to celebrate. In the 21st century, younger population, although participating strongly i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairro Sul
Bairro Sul, literally the South Neighborhood, also known as Lapa, is the fishery district of the city of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal. It is one of the six traditional neighborhoods of Póvoa de Varzim and one of the eleven parts in which the city is subdivided. The quarter is situated south of Póvoa de Varzim City Center. It has green and white as neighborhood colors and Lancha Poveira as symbol, also the icon of the city. History The Nossa Senhora da Lapa Brotherhood, founded in 1761, asked in 1767 for rights and privileges in "''Chãos de Areia''" (Sand ground) to establish their homes in there. these fisherman originally lived in downtown. The structure of parallel streets to the seaport of Póvoa de Varzim was already reasonably developed in this century. Raul Brandão describes the quarter as "two side streets on the sand, Eskimos burrow, dark, smoky, fish reeking, with branches stacked in the sand, and rays drying to the sun for Winter consumption." When the fishermen co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Canal
Porto Canal is a Portuguese pay television channel broadcasting from northern Portugal based in Matosinhos. Launched on 29 September 2006, it replaced former NTV (from Porto TV, based in Vila Nova de Gaia) which transformed into RTPN, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa's news channel. In July 2010, Porto Canal launched three new delegations in Mirandela, Arcos de Valdevez and Penafiel, and in the beginning of 2011, three more in Guimarães, Braga and Vila Real. In March 2011, Porto Canal announced a partnership with Portuguese sports club F.C. Porto. In August 2011, F.C. Porto assumed the management of Porto Canal, launching two new F.C. Porto related programs, ''Flash Porto'' and ''Somos Porto''. Porto Canal also broadcasts live full matches of the F.C. Porto teams of football (only FC Porto B home games), basketball, handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture In Póvoa De Varzim
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Son Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typical be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Festivals In Portugal
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Son Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typical be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapa Church
180px, Lighthouse of Lapa Church. Lapa Church, officially Parish Church of Our Lady of Lapa () is a Parish church in the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim. It was built in 1772 by the local fishermen community. Despite its simplicity it has some interesting features and cultural interest such its old lighthouse, once a link between the church and the fishermen at sea. Traditional marriage marks, Siglas poveiras, can be found in the church. it is a seaside church and lighthouse, near the seashore in the Port of Póvoa de Varzim. History The establishment of the chapel is due to Spanish missionaries, Franciscan friars, in the third quarter of the 18th century. They got the support of some local fishermen to create a chapel in honor of Our Lady of the rock (Lapa). The foundation stone was placed on December 9, 1770. Works finished on August 15th 1772, with a solemn blessing. The founders organized themselves as a brotherhood, this status was later confirmed by Maria I of Portugal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matriz Church Of Póvoa De Varzim
FIle:Igreja Matriz da Póvoa de Varzim.jpg, 280px, Façade of Matriz church. Matriz Church of Póvoa de Varzim (, literally Mother Church of Póvoa de Varzim), also Nossa Senhora da Conceição Parish Church is the Mother Church, Mother Roman Catholic church in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The temple is located in Praça Velha square, in Bairro da Matriz quarter. The church is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, ''Nossa Senhora da Conceição'' in Portuguese, the main patron saint of Póvoa de Varzim. Of Baroque architecture and of high artistic value, the temple was built in the 18th century siding the old Póvoa de Varzim town hall, a proof of the alliance of Póvoa de Varzim Town Hall with the Archdiocese of Braga, important for the territorial disputes that the town had with the House of Braganza. History Early temples There was a chapel around Praça Velha square, known as Madre de Deus chapel, built before 1521 by the nobleman João ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenida Dos Banhos
Avenida dos Banhos (Portuguese for Baths Avenue), is the main waterfront street and a popular tourist attraction in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It roughly encompasses the central waterfront area of Póvoa de Varzim from Passeio Alegre Square and the Port of Póvoa de Varzim to Vasco da Gama Avenue. History Beach-going in Póvoa de Varzim was concentrated around Passeio Alegre. In 1812, the Avenue was known as Rua da Regoiça street and was populated by fishermen houses of Bairro Norte. With the popularity of this district's beaches, summer houses started appearing and was, spontaneously called, Banhos street around 1846. In 1897 it gained the current naming as Avenida dos Banhos, it was known as Avenida Brasil since 1916 and in 1926, Rua dos Heróis da Grande Guerra. Only in 1966 the Avenida dos Banhos popular naming was officially adopted. David Alves (1866-1924) projected the creation of a great Avenida dos Banhos to rival Nice and Ostend, and in 1917 he commissioned a proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loja Bairro Sul
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Regufe
Regufe is a neighbourhood of the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim. It is Regufe is located in the south part of Matriz/Mariadeira district. It has very different topologies and little development, mostly of residential nature. Regufe is an ancient place: a former village around the town of Póvoa de Varzim. Regufe's name is of Suebi origin from ''Rekaufus'': ''Rec'' + ''wulf'' (wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...). It was a farming and cattle area, but in its farms and woodlands, houses and buildings started being raised. In certain areas of the neighbourhood, mostly, in the border with Vila do Conde, this kind of living can still be seen. Farol de Regufe (22 metres tall) is the symbol of the quarter; it is a metallic lighthouse painted red. {{Coord miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giesteira
Giesteira or Bairro de Belém is a neighbourhood of the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim. It is one of the six traditional neighbourhoods of the city, and one of the eleven city districts. Giesteira is located northeast of the Póvoa de Varzim City Center and subdivided by the parishes of Póvoa de Varzim Parish and Beiriz, most of its land area belongs to Beiriz civil parish. Giesteira was originally the ancient village of Giesteira in which some of its population moved to populate the new urban center of the Town of Varzim in the 14th century. One of the features of Giesteira are its granite walls that divided the farm fields. In Giesteira it is located the new cemetery of Póvoa de Varzim, while the old one, in Moninhas, is also part of its traditional territory. Archaeological data suggest the existence of a necropolis dating to the Roman period, including a funerary stele in tribute to the god Mars and a pedestal A pedestal (from French ''piédestal'', Italian ''pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariadeira
Mariadeira is a neighbourhood of the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho River, Minho .... it is located in the Matriz/Mariadeira district. Mariadeira derives from ''Maria da Eira'' (Mary of the threshing floor). Located inland, Mariadeira is an old place, but its major development was in late 20th century, thus it has different topologies. Despite being a small neighbourhood, it is one of the most dynamic, thus it is known as ''the biggest of the smallest''. It is known to bring famous Portuguese popular music performers to its Saint Peter festival, attracting many to the neighbourhood during the city’s Saint Peter festivities. {{Coord missing, Portugal Neighbourhoods of Póvoa de Varzim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairro Da Matriz
Bairro da Matriz (In Portuguese it means Mother/First Church Quarter) is the historical neighbourhood of the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim and part of the Matriz/Mariadeira district. 180px, left, Matriz/Mariadeira district in the city of Póvoa de Varzim. Eça de Queiroz Square. Bairro da Matriz was a significant settlement in the 14th century, whose nucleus was the centre, whence the modern city grew, being a neighbourhood composed by old single family homes. History In 1308, King Denis wrote a charter in which the King gave his royal land in Varzim to 54 local families; these would have to create a "Póvoa", a new settlement in Varzim, just south of the primitive Roman and Early Medieval core of the Town of Varzim, controlled by knights under a feudal structure. Praça Velha, the new civic center appears in this context, in the site of the "Póvoa Nova de Varzim" (The New Settlement of Varzim), which included the free fair, the town hall and a new church - the Madre Deus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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