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Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as calçada portuguesa or simply calçada (or pedra portuguesa in Brazil), is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic .
Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Routes in Portugal several sites 2017 ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) This nomination covers the routes of Camino in Portugal. The origins of the pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain date to the 9th century. The routes in Spain and in ...
In San José he met Doris Stone, who directed the group toward the Diquís Delta region in the southwest ("Valle de Diquís" refers to the valley of the lower Río Grande de Térraba, including the Osa Canton towns of Puerto Cortés, Palmar Norte, and Sierpe [10]) and provided them with valuable dig sites and personal contacts.
Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago. [1] [2]This find has challenged previous thinking about patterns of human settlement in South America.
Piedra del Cocuy (from Spanish: Cocuy Rock; Portuguese: Pedra do Cucuí) is a natural monument in Venezuela, located near the triple border of the country with Brazil and Colombia in the limits of the Amazon and the Orinoco Basins. [1] Piedra del Cocuy is an inselberg made of granitic rock, its peak stands at c. 450 m a.s.l. [2]
The Portuguese and their descendants were quick to organize themselves and establish mutual aid societies (such as the Casas de Portugal), hospitals (e.g. Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, Beneficência Portuguesa de Porto Alegre, Hospital Português de Salvador, Real Hospital Português do Recife, etc.), libraries (e.g. Real Gabinete ...
Brazilianite, NaAl 3 (PO 4) 2 (OH) 4 is a hydrous sodium aluminium phosphate that forms through the metasomatic alteration of amblygonite-montebrasite. [4] Amblygonite, LiAlPO 4 F in combination with quartz goes through an OH-F exchange to make montebrasite, LiAlPO 4 {F,OH} at temperatures greater than 480 °C. [4]
In the World's Fair in 1998 (), the building was responsible for housing the Portuguese National representation at that event.. The building's entrance area is a large square covered by an imposing pre-stressed concrete canopy, which is based on the idea of a sheet of paper placed on two bricks, opening up space to the city to accommodate the various events that a space of this kind.