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Golegã Municipality
Golegã () is a town and municipality in Santarém District, Portugal. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 5,913,including the parish Pombalinho, that changed from the municipality of Santarém to Golegã in 2013 in an area of 84.32 km². The present Mayor is Rui Manuel Lince Singeis Medinas Duarte, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. Historical sights The main historical sight of Golegã is its main church Igreja Matriz da Golegã, built in the early 16th century in Manueline (Portuguese late Gothic) style. The remarkable main portal and the ribbed vaulting inside the main chapel are its most important artistic features. Near Golegã village is located the ''Quinta da Cardiga'', a manor house with its origin in a 12th-century donation to the Knights Templar. Originally the site of a castle, the property was remodelled in the 16th century into a Renaissance rural palace. Geography Parishes Administratively, the municipality i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lezíria Do Tejo
The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Lezíria do Tejo (; "Tagus Floodplain") is an administrative division in Portugal. It was established as an ''Associação de Municípios'' in 1987, converted into a ''Comunidade Urbana'' in 2003, and converted into a ''Comunidade Intermunicipal'' in November 2008. It is also a NUTS3 subregion of the Oeste e Vale do Tejo. The seat of the intermunicipal community is the city of Santarém. Lezíria do Tejo comprises municipalities of the former districts of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Câmara Municipal Da Golegã - Portugal (3051215676)
Câmara (meaning " chamber") is a common surname in the Portuguese language. It may also refer to: People * António de Vasconcelos e Sousa Câmara Caminha Faro e Veiga, 8th Count of Calheta, 4th Marquis of Castelo Melhor and Constable of Portugal * D. João da Câmara, Portuguese writer * Eugênia Câmara, Portuguese actress * Gilberto Câmara, Brazilian computer scientist * Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop * Hélder Câmara (chess player), Brazilian chess master * Joana Tomásia da Câmara, 14th and last donatary captain of the island of São Miguel, Portugal * João Câmara, Brazilian painter * Ronald Câmara, Brazilian chess master * Sérgio Sette Câmara. Brazilian racing driver * José da Câmara Teles, 13th donatary captain of the island of São Miguel, Portugal * Luís Manuel da Câmara, 12th donatary captain of the island of São Miguel, Portugal Places * Câmara de Lobos, city and municipality in Madeira, Portugal * Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, a paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Bento
Manuel Galrinho Bento (25 June 1948 – 1 March 2007) was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Bento was best known for his 20-year spell at Benfica, having retired well into his 40s after appearing in nearly 650 official games. He represented Portugal at Euro 1984 and the 1986 World Cup, helping the national team reach the semi-finals in the former tournament. Chosen by Portuguese sports newspaper '' Record'' as one of the best 100 Portuguese footballers, Bento won the ''Goalkeeper of the Year'' award a best-ever eight times. In January 2015, he was chosen by the UEFA website as one of Europe's favourite goalkeepers. Club career Bento was born in Golegã, Santarém District. After various youth spells, including one with Sporting CP, he started professionally at F.C. Barreirense, being transferred to S.L. Benfica for the 1972–73 season. Bento started with Benfica as a backup to another Portuguese keeper, José Henrique. After three yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize In Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original ). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, the award is based on an author's body of work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize. The academy announces the name of the laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. Literature is traditionally the final award presented at the Nobel Prize ceremony. On some occasions, the award has been postponed to the following year, most recently in 2018. Background Alfred Nobel stipulated in his last will and testament that his money be used to create a series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as Allegory, allegories, commonly present Subversion, subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the Theopoetics, theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood (critic), James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant." More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. A proponent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Portugal
The prime minister of Portugal (; ) is the head of government of Portugal. As head of government, the prime minister coordinates the actions of ministers, represents the Government of Portugal to the other bodies of state, is accountable to Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), parliament and keeps the President of Portugal, president informed. The prime minister can hold the role of head of government with the portfolio of one or more ministries. As Portugal is a semi-presidential system, semi-presidential parliamentary republic, the prime minister is the country's leading political figure and ''de facto'' chief executive. There is no limit to the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister. The prime minister is appointed by the president following Portuguese legislative elections, legislative elections, after having heard the parties represented in the parliament. Usually, the person named is the leader of the largest party in the previous election, but there have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Relvas
José Maria de Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos ( Golegã, Golegã, 5 March 1858 – Alpiarça, Casa dos Patudos, 31 October 1929; , was a Portuguese politician and Prime Minister of Portugal. Personal life Jose was married to Eugénia de Loureiro Queirós Couto Leitão. He had three children: Carlos, João and Maria Luísa. Political career An historic republican, he proclaimed the republic from the balcony of the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon, on 5 October 1910. He was the second Minister of Finance during the provisional government led by Teófilo Braga, from 12 October 1910 to 3 September 1911. After that, he served as ambassador of Portugal in Madrid, from 1911 to 1914. He was President of the Ministry (Prime Minister), from 27 January to 30 March 1919, in one of the many short-lived governments of the Portuguese First Republic. His house in Alpiarça Alpiarça () is a municipality in Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,702, in an area of 95.36& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese-style Bullfighting
Portuguese-style bullfighting () differs in many aspects from Spanish-style bullfighting, most notably in the fact that the bull is not killed in front of an audience in the arena. The ''cavaleiros'' and the '' forcados'' are unique to the Portuguese variety of bullfighting, as well as the participation of horsewomen (''cavaleiras'') in the routines. Main figures * ''Cavaleiros'' - A horseman or horsewoman (rider), dressed in traditional 17th century costume, antagonizes a bull while on horseback. The horses are of the Lusitano breed, specially-trained for these “fights”. The horses are usually skilled in ''dressage'', and may exhibit their art at points in the spectacle. The purpose of the bullfight is to pin three or four ''bandarilhas'' (small spears) in the back of the bull. In the past, cavaleiros were often members of older, aristocratic families. The horsewomen, the cavaleiras, are pioneers and became a unique feature of Portuguese bullfighting. Ana Batista, Sónia Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Relvas
Carlos Augusto de Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos (13 November 1838 – 23 January 1894), more commonly known simply as Carlos Relvas, was a wealthy Portuguese landowner, and sportsman. He is perhaps best known as a talented amateur Portuguese-style bullfighting, bullfighter, and as a pioneer of photography in Portugal. Biography Carlos Relvas was born in the Outeiro Palace, in Golegã, a small village in the rural province of Ribatejo Province, Ribatejo in Portugal. His father, José Farinha Relvas de Campos was one of the wealthiest landowners in Ribatejo. He was educated by private tutors in science and foreign languages, namely French. Carlos Relvas inherited a veritable fortune and extensive land from his parents, but was always held in high regard for his charitability. Of an artistic disposition, he soon turned to photography. In 1876, he had an opulent ''atelier'' built in one of his properties in Golegã, and bought several of the most modern photographic apparatuses fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pure Blood Lusitano
The Lusitano, also known as the Pure Blood Lusitano or PSL (''Puro Sangue Lusitano''), is a Portuguese horse breed. Horses were known to be present on the Iberian Peninsula as far back as 20,000 BC, and by 800 BC the region was renowned for its war horses. The fame of the horses from Lusitania goes back to the Roman Age, which attributed its speed to the influence of the West wind, who was considered capable of fertilizing the mares. When the Muslims invaded Iberia in 711 AD, they brought Arabian horses with them that were crossed with the native horses, developing a horse that became useful for war, dressage and bull fighting. The Portuguese horse was named the Lusitano, after the word Lusitania, the ancient Roman name for the region that modern Portugal occupies. There are four main breed lineages within the breed today, and characteristics differ slightly between each line. Lusitanos can be any solid color, although they are generally gray, bay or chestnut. Horses of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, '' Eohippus'', into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE in Central Asia, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies ''caballus'' are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that have never been domesticated. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
