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Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier. It recounts the travels of Swiss Classics instructor Raimund Gregorius as he explores the life of Amadeu de Prado, a Portuguese doctor, during António de Oliveira Salazar's right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes ...
Sete Rios Station (Portuguese: Estação Ferroviária de Sete Rios) is a railway station located in the city of Lisbon. It is served by the Sintra and Azambuja Lines, as well as the private operator Fertagus .
The Sud Express (also called Surexpreso [3] Spanish: [suɾeɣsˈpɾeso] and Sud Expresso [4] Portuguese: [suðɨʃˈpɾesu]) was an overnight passenger train connecting Paris with Lisbon and Madrid, and which originally was operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and ran north of Paris to Calais.
Benfica Station (Portuguese: Estação Ferroviária de Benfica) is a railway station located in the city of Lisbon. It is served by the Sintra and Azambuja Lines. [1] It is operated by Lisbon CP and managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal.
Campolide Station (Portuguese: Estação Ferroviária de Campolide) is a railway station located in the city of Lisbon. It is served by the Sintra and Azambuja Lines, as well as the private operator Fertagus. [1] [3] It is operated by Lisbon CP and managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal. [2]
“When I was a little child, I read books about the maritime adventures of sailors and polar heroes,” he says. “I was attracted by tough things — I like challenges. This is why I followed ...
Raimundo Silva, assigned to correct a book titled The History of Siege of Lisbon by his publishing house, decides to alter a crucial sentence by inserting the word "not" in the text, so that the book now claims that the Crusaders did not come to the aid of the Portuguese king in taking Lisbon from the Moors. This has repercussions, both for ...
Carris (Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa) (Lisbon Tramways Company) is a public transportation company in Lisbon, Portugal. Carris operates Lisbon's buses, trams, and funiculars. It does not operate the Lisbon Metro. Carris was founded September 18, 1872. [1] A total of 140.6 million passenger boardings were recorded in 2017. [2]