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Viana Do Alentejo
Viana do Alentejo () is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,743, in an area of 393.67 km2. The present Mayor is Bernardino Bengalinha Pinto, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is January 13. Climate Viana do Alentejo has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: ''Csa'') with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 3 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Aguiar * Alcáçovas * Viana do Alentejo Notable residents Notable people from Viana do Alentejo include: * Joana da Gama (c.1520 – 1586) a Portuguese writer. * Duarte Lobo (ca.1565 – 1646) a Portuguese composer. * Aleixo de Abreu (1568–1630) a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist. * António Francisco Cardim (1596–1659) a Jesuit priest, missionary and historian in the Far East. * António Banha (1941-2011) actor. Twin towns Viana do Alentejo is twinned with: * Igarassu, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Of Viana Do Alentejo
The Castle of Viana do Alentejo ( pt, Castelo de Viana do Alentejo) is a gothic castle constructed during the reconquest and settlement of the central region of the Portuguese Alentejo, located in the parish of Viana do Alentejo, municipality of the same name. Although a relatively low-profile design, in comparison to its contemporaries (such as the Castle of Portel or Castle of Feira), the structure served the period of strife associated with expansion of Portuguese forces/authority into the southern Algarve. History The castle was founded in 1313; on establishing a foral (''charter'') to this village in 1313, King Denis ordered the construction of an ''encirclement of walls where this town lies, of 400 arms ength' donating 100,000 pounds for the public works.Ana Cristina Pais (2004), p.134 However, the fortification that exists in Viana do Alentejo ''"..does not match this regal intention regal...and the latest research lean towards the probability that is subjects had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia (Portugal)
''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The ''parroquia'' in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a ''freguesia''. A ''freguesia'' is a subdivision of a ''município'' (municipality). Most often, a parish takes the name of its seat, which is usually the most important (or the single) human agglomeration within its area, which can be a neighbourhood or city district, a group of hamlets, a village, a town or an entire city. In cases where the seat is itself divided into more than one parish, each one takes the name of a landmark within its area or of the patron saint from the usually cot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viana (Maranhão)
Viana may refer to: Places *Viana, Luanda, Angola *Viana, Espírito Santo, Brazil * Viana, Maranhão, Brazil *Viana do Castelo, Portugal *Viana, Spain in Navarre *Viana (comarca), Ourense, Galicia, Spain **Viana do Bolo, a municipality in the comarca Other uses * Vianna, alternate spelling * Viana (department store), a Mexican discount chain * ''Viana'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails *Esporte Clube Viana, a Brazilian football club based in Maranhão state * (1885–1914), Brazilian parasitologist honored on a Brazilian postage stamp *Hugo Viana (born 1983), Portuguese footballer See also *Prince of Viana The Prince or Princess of Viana ( es, Príncipe de Viana, eu, Vianako Printzea) is one of the titles of the heir of the Crown of Spain. Other associated titles originate from the rest of the kingdoms that formed Spain: Prince of Asturias, Prin ... {{disambiguation, geo, surname Portuguese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Seguro
Porto Seguro (, Safe Harbor in English), is a city located in the far south of Bahia, 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 city has an estimated population of 150,658 (2020), covers , and has a population density of 52.7 residents per square kilometer. The area that includes Porto Seguro and neighbouring Santa Cruz Cabrália and Eunápolis holds a distinctive place in Brazilian history: in 1500 it was the first landing point of Portuguese navigators, principally Pedro Álvares Cabral. The crime rate is considered high, as is the case in the rest of Bahia. Geography Climate The climate in Porto Seguro is warm, pleasant, and partly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 19 °C lows (67 °F) to 29C highs (84&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igarassu, Pernambuco
Igarassu (or Igaraçu) is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is the second oldest city of the country and is situated on the north coast of the metropolitan region of Recife, approximately . It stands as one of the earliest European settlements in Brazil and is the site of the oldest church in the country, the Church of Saints Cosme and Damião, built in 1535. Igarassu is home to numerous colonial-period historic structures. The historic center of the city was designated a national monument by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) in 1972. History Igarassu was inhabited by Caetés Indians before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. Its genesis as a town came with the arrival in the area of Duarte Coelho Pereira in 1535. Coelho's arrival marked the beginning of the Portuguese settlement of Brazil. The town itself was established in 1537 as the village of Igarassu, which means “Great Canoe” in Tupi-Guaraní. It was one of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister City
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of international links between municipalities akin to what are known as sister cities or twin towns today dating back to the 9th century, the modern concept was first established and adopted worldwide during World War II. Origins of the modern concept The modern concept of town twinning has its roots in the Second World War. More specifically, it was inspired by the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, known as the Coventry Blitz. First conceived by the then Mayor of Coventry, Alfred Robert Grindlay, culminating in his renowned telegram to the people of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942, the idea emerged as a way of establishing solidarity links between cities in allied countries that went through similar devastating events. The comradesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Francisco Cardim
António Francisco Cardim (1596 – April 30, 1659) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, missionary, and historian who recorded the events of the fathers and brothers of the Jesuit missions in China, Japan, and other places in the Far East. Early life and education Cardim was born in 1596 in Viana do Alentejo, the son of Jorge Cardim Frocs and Catherina de Andrade. He entered the University of Évora, where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus on February 24, 1611, at 15 years of age. As a sign of his devotion to Saint Francis Xavier, Cardim added the name "Francisco" to his own last name. After requesting to be sent to the Far East as a missionary, Cardim sailed to Portuguese India in 1618 in the company of Bishop Diogo Correia Valente (1568-1633). He completed his studies in theology at Goa, where he was ordained as a Jesuit priest on February 1, 1621. Career In 1623, after entering the Chinese empire at Guangzhou, Cardim settled in Macau. From 1626 until 1629, he lived i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleixo De Abreu
Aleixo de Abreu (; Alcáçovas do Alentejo, Portugal, 1568– Lisbon, Portugal, 1630) was a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Coimbra. Due to his notable work as a physician, he was sent to Angola, along with Afonso Furtado de Mendonça, to study the maladies, believed to be endogenous to that land, that seemed to be afflicting the Portuguese sailors. Having spent 9 years in Angola, Aleixo de Abreu became a recognized expert in the field of African maladies. He wrote extensive studies on scurvy, known at the time in Portugal as "the Angola disease" ( pt, mal-de-angola), which were later included in his Treaty of the Seven Maladies ( es, Tratado de las Siete Enfermedades), later published in 1623. He later on became the main chamber's physician in king Felipe IV Philip IV ( es, Felipe, pt, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duarte Lobo
Duarte Lobo (ca. 1565 – 24 September 1646; Latinized as ''Eduardus Lupus'') was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was one of the most famous Portuguese composers of the time, together with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, composers who all began their academic studies as students of Manuel Mendes. Along with John IV, King of Portugal, they represent the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony. Life Details of his life are sparse. He was born in Alcáçovas, in Alentejo, southern Portugal. He is known to have been a choir boy at Évora where he subsequently studied with Manuel Mendes. His first position was as ''mestre de capela'' of the cathedral of Évora; sometime before 1589, he became ''maestro di cappella'' at the Hospital Real, Lisbon. By 1591 he was appointed as ''mestre de capela'' at the cathedral in Lisbon, a position he held till 1639. This was the most prestigious musical appointment in the country. He also served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Da Gama
Joana da Gama (–1586) was a Portuguese writer. Early life Born in Viana do Alentejo about 1520, Da Gama was the daughter of Manoel do Casco and Filipa da Gama. Through her mother she was a distant relative of the explorer Vasco da Gama. Maid of honour Da Gama appears to have entered the court of Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal as an enslaved person: a 1543 invoice for clothing refers to her as a slave. Sometime later she was emancipated and served as a free maid of honour in the court. Recolhimento do Salvador do Mundo in Évora After marriage, Da Gama moved to Évora. However, her husband died about a year and a half later. She remained in that city. After widowhood, she would have been able to live independently, having possession of a house and a fortune. However, in society at the time it was not acceptable for a woman to live without male guardianship, which explains why many widows went into convents. Thus Da Gama created the Recolhimento (Retreat) do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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