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Aerial view of Cape Sagres with the Fortress of Sagres. The School of Sagres (Escola de Sagres in Portuguese), also called Court of Sagres is supposed to have been a group of figures associated with fifteenth century Portuguese navigation, gathered by prince Henry of Portugal in Sagres near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Algarve.
In Portugal, a locality can only be called a city if more than 8,000 inhabitants live in the city's urban area. In addition, at least half of the following infrastructure must be present: [2] Hospital; Pharmacy; Fire department; Event center and cultural center; Museum and library; Hotel; Primary and secondary school; Pre-school and kindergarten
Valença (Portuguese pronunciation: [vɐˈlẽsɐ] ⓘ), also known as Valença do Minho (Traditional Spanish: Valencia de Miño), is a municipality and a town in Portugal, bordered across from Tui, Galicia. The population in 2011 was 14,127, [1] in an area of 117.13 km 2. [2] Valença officially became a city on 12 June 2009.
Sagres Point's location in Continental Portugal The windswept point with the castle.. Sagres Point (Ponta de Sagres, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsaɣɾɨʃ], from the Latin Promontorium Sacrum ‘Holy Promontory’) is a windswept shelf-like promontory located in the southwest Algarve region of southern Portugal.
Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
In 2013, the town administration of Óbidos developed a municipal literature programme which included the creation of an international literary festival. Since its first edition in 2015, the Fólio (Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos) takes places every year in October. [6] [7] In 2015, the UNESCO recognized Óbidos as the City of ...
Tomar (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), [1] is a city and a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, [2] in an area of 351.20 km 2 (135.60 sq mi). [3]
The city of Guarda was founded in 1199, in a location that was both difficult to reach and allowed as many as twenty leagues of the surrounding territory to be watched, [24] and Sancho I of Portugal transferred the diocese of Egitania (modern day Idanha-a-Velha) to Guarda, [25] while granting the city a charter that was based on the short ...