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Afonso da Maia, a well-mannered Portuguese man, is married to Maria Eduarda Runa and their marriage only produces one son – Pedro da Maia. Pedro da Maia, who is given the typical romantic education, becomes a weak, low-spirited and sensitive man. He is very close to his mother and is inconsolable after her death. He only recuperates when he ...
Manuel da Maia (5 August 1677, baptised – 17 September 1768) was a Portuguese architect, engineer, and archivist. Maia is primarily remembered for his leadership in the reconstruction efforts following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , alongside Eugénio dos Santos and Carlos Mardel .
The Alfragide Towers (Portuguese: Torres de Alfragide) are a set of residential buildings in Alfragide, Amadora, Portugal. The complex consists of three residential towers and a shopping centre at ground level, connecting the three buildings. It also contains an underground car park and a complex of swimming pools, currently unused.
Alfragide (Portuguese pronunciation: [alfɾɐˈʒiðɨ]) is a parish in Amadora Municipality. The population in 2011 was 17,044, [1] in an area of 2.51 km². [2] Its patron saint is Our Lady of Fatima. In the extreme south of the parish is located the first IKEA store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of Lisbon.
Between 1852 and 1886 Santa Maria dos Olivais formed a large municipality, predominantly rural, including 22 civil parishes. Bedeteca Municipal de Lisboa. It covered an area of approximately 223 square kilometers and had a population of 25,495 inhabitants in 1864, which increased to 29,491 inhabitants by 1878.
A view along the Tagus River, c. 1730, showing the area in Santa Maria Maior and the Casa dos Bicos (tenth from the right in front of the right square) A public image from between 1910 and 1920, published in Lisboa Velha (Afonso Lopes Vieira), showing the former codfish warehouse in 1925
The Casa Pia, a Portuguese institution founded by Maria I (known as A Pia, "Maria the Pious"), and organized by Police Intendant Pina Manique in 1780, was founded following the social disarray of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The purpose of the institution was to provide shelter and schooling to children in need.
Maia is located along the northern coast of São Miguel, situated between the civil parishes of São Brás (in the west) and Lomba da Maia (in the east) in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, with the municipalities of Vila Franca do Campo and Povoação to the south. This southern border makes-up part of the Serra da Tronqueira, a rugged ridge ...