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Sagres may refer to: Places * Sagres (Vila do Bispo), a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, Portugal * Sagres Point, a promontory in the southwestern part of Vila do Bispo, Portugal ** Lighthouse of Ponta de Sagres * Sagres, São Paulo, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil Other * Escola de Sagres, a nautical school that would have existed in the civil parish of Sagres, Portugal, during the fifteenth century * NRP ''Sagres'' (1896), a tall ship in Portuguese naval service also known as ''Sagres II'', and now ''Rickmer Rickmers'' * NRP ''Sagres'' (1937), a tall ship in Portuguese naval service also known as ''Sagres III'' * Sagres (beer), a Portuguese brewery, founded in 1934 * "Sagres" (song), the first single from the album ''Dark Bird Is Home'' by Swedish artist The Tallest Man on Earth See also * Sgares Sean Michael Gares, better known as sgares or Seang@res, is an American professional retired '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' player, espo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagres (Vila Do Bispo)
Sagres is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, in the southern Algarve of Portugal. It has 1,894 inhabitants (2021) in an area of . It is historically connected to the early Portuguese Age of Discovery. Sagres is near the Western end of the world's longest estimated straight-line path over land, at 11,241 km, ending near Jinjiang in the People's Republic of China. History The name Sagres derives from ''Sagrado'' (''holy'') owing to the important local religious practices and rituals that occurred during the pre-history of the nation.Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo (2012), p.1 From here some of the Mediterranean peoples (including the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans), venerated their divinities and which some believed, owing to the absence of a human settlement, was the gathering place for their gods. Christinas (Mozarabs) that lived in this zone, during the Muslim occupation, erected the Church of Corvo, where the mortal remains of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagres Point
Sagres Point (', , from the Latin ''Promontorium Sacrum'' ‘Holy Promontory’) is a windswept shelf-like promontory located in the southwest Algarve region of southern Portugal. Only 4 km to the west and 3 km to the north lies Cape St. Vincent (), which is usually taken as the southwesternmost tip of Europe. The vicinity of Sagres Point and Cape St. Vincent has been used for religious purposes since Neolithic times, to which standing menhirs near Vila do Bispo, a few miles from both points, attest. History The promontory of Sagres has always been important for sailors because it offers a shelter for ships before attempting the dangerous voyage around Cape St. Vincent (could be Belixe Bay, between Sagres Point and the Cape, or Sagres Bay, to the east). Given the dangers of being blown onto the coastal rocks, captains preferred to wait in the lee of the point until favourable winds allowed them to continue. Strabo There is some question whether Sagres Point, whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lighthouse Of Ponta De Sagres
The Lighthouse of Ponta de Sagres ( pt, Estação Rádio-Goniométrica/Farolim de Sagres/Farol da Ponta de Sagres), is beacon/lighthouse located along the coastal peninsula of Sagres Point in the civil parish of Sagres, in the Portuguese municipality of the Vila do Bispo. History As part of the 5th centenary commemorations marking the birth of Henry the Navigator, in 1894 the lighthouse was inaugurated. The third navigational advisory, dated 3 March 1894, indicated that he light was a fixed red beacon, with a , using a petroleum lamp. On 28 November 1906, the 5th order diopter lamp was substituted by an optical device of greater range. This lantern was lit on 23 June 1923, following the construction of a new building with the installation of a 4th order catadioptric optical lamp, that was originally installed in the lighthouse of Ponta da Piedade. Between 1947-1949, the lighthouse was transferred to the Ministry of the Navy. The illumination source was changed to an electri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagres, São Paulo
Sagres is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... The population in 2020 was 2,430 and the area is 149.37 km². The elevation is 419 m. References Municipalities in São Paulo (state) {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escola De Sagres
The School of Sagres (''Escola de Sagres'' in Portuguese), also called Court of Sagres is supposed to have been a group of figures associated with fifteenth century Portuguese navigation, gathered by prince Henry the Navigator, Henry of Portugal in Sagres Point, Sagres near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Algarve. Since the nearby port of Lagos (Portugal), Lagos was the actual point of departure for numerous expeditions of exploration and colonization along the African coast and Atlantic islands, the existence of a "school" at Sagres has been questioned by some historians. After the death of Prince Henry (1460), the center of Portuguese discoveries center shifted to Lisbon. The first written mention of a "school" at Sagres in English dates from the seventeenth century by Samuel Purchas, although Damião de Gois had already pointed to a similar idea in the sixteenth century. Portuguese and English historians settled on the term and it gai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickmer Rickmers
''Rickmer Rickmers'' is a sailing ship (three masted barque) permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the '' Cap San Diego''. Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807–1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873–1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928. ''Rickmer Rickmers'' was built in 1896 by the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven, and was first used on the Hong Kong route carrying rice and bamboo. In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed ''Max'', and transferred to the Hamburg-Chile route. In World War I ''Max'' was captured by the Government of Portugal, in Horta (Azores) harbour and loaned to the United Kingdom as a war aid. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed under the Union Jack, as ''Flores''. After World War I she was returned to the Portuguese Government, becoming a Portuguese Navy training ship and was once more renamed, as NRP ''Sagres'' (the second of that name). In 1958, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRP Sagres (1937)
The NRP ''Sagres'' is a tall ship and school ship of the Portuguese Navy since 1961. As the third ship with this name in the Portuguese Navy, she is sometimes referred to as ''Sagres III''. Design and specifications The ship is a steel-built three masted barque, with square sails on the fore and main masts and gaff rigging on the mizzen mast. Her main mast rises above the deck. She carries 22 sails totaling about and can reach a top speed of under sail. She has a sparred length of , a width of , a draught of , and a displacement at full load of . Ship history The three-masted ship was launched under the name ''Albert Leo Schlageter'' on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine''. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. ''Sagres'' is a sister ship of the ''Gorch Fock'', the ''Horst Wessel'', and the Romanian training vessel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central De Cervejas
Sociedade Central de Cervejas (SCC; full name: SCC – Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas, S.A.) is a Portugal, Portuguese brewery, founded in 1934. Its main output is the Sagres brand of beers. The company has been controlled by Heineken International, Heineken since April 2008. History Sociedade Central de Cervejas was established in 1934, with the aim of selling the beers produced by the former breweriesCompanhia Produtora de Malte e Cerveja Portugália Companhia de Cervejas Estrela, Companhia de Cervejas Coimbra and Companhia da Fábrica de Cerveja Jansen. In 1935, and after 99 years of activityFábrica de Cervejas Trindadewas integrated by Sociedade Central de Cervejas (SCC). Centralcer – Central de Cervejas, E.P. is incorporated in 1977 as a result of the merger of Sociedade Central de Cervejas, S.A.R.L. (incorporated in 1934) with Cergal – Cervejas de Portugal, S.A.R.L. (incorporated in 1972). Centralcer – Central de Cervejas, S.A. was therefore created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Bird Is Home
''Dark Bird Is Home'' is the fourth LP by The Tallest Man on Earth. It was released on CD, digital and vinyl on May 12, 2015 through the label Dead Oceans. The album is the first in his discography to feature a full band playing on almost every track. Background The songs of the album were recorded in various countries, studios, and barns, and are said to "carry a weather-worn quality, some dirt and some grit." BJ Burton announced via his Instagram page that production on the album had begun in July 2014 and concluded in September 2014. The album is said to be Matsson's most personal and direct piece of work, inspired by the death of a close family member and by the divorce from his wife, singer-songwriter Amanda Bergman. A trailer for the album was released on February 10, 2015, with Matsson proclaiming that "this is not the end, this is fine". Critical reception ''Dark Bird Is Home'' received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
