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Ericeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [eɾiˈsɐjɾɐ]) is a civil parish and seaside community on the western coast of Portugal (in Mafra municipality, located 35km northwest of the center of Lisbon, about 45km by road) considered the surfing capital of Europe.
Grupo Desportivo União Ericeirense is a Portuguese association football club, founded in Ericeira, a small parish within Mafra, on 1 December 1921. The club plays in the second division of the Lisbon Football Association league, holding their home matches at the Campo Henrique Tomás Frade .
Count of Ericeira (Portuguese: Conde da Ericeira) was a title created by King Philip III of Portugal, through a 1 March 1622 letter in favour of Diogo de Meneses (1553–1625). Diogo de Meneses (1622–1625); 1st Count of Ericeira; Fernando de Meneses (1614–1699); 2nd Count of Ericeira; Luís de Meneses (1632–1690); 3rd Count of Ericeira.
D. Fernando de Meneses, 2nd Count of Ericeira (27 November 1614 — 22 June 1699) was a Portuguese nobleman and military man. He was Governor of Tangier until 1661. He was Governor of Tangier until 1661.
It is situated on the top of the Sintra Mountains, where it has a panoramic view of the municipality of Sintra, and on a clear day Mafra and Ericeira. It is accessible from Santa Maria e São Miguel by a protected gate and turnstile, or across a road accessway to the Palace of Pena. [2]
María was the widow (circa 1360) of Álvaro Dias de Sousa (c. 1330 – 1365), 2nd Lord of Mafra and Ericeira, by whom she had conceived Lopo Dias de Sousa (c. 1360 – 1435, Pombal), who inherited his father's titles and later became Master of the Order of Christ. Infante John, having gone to her house to fetch her, found an altar and a priest ...
The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts and other military defences built in secrecy to defend Lisbon during the Peninsular War.Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Colonel Richard Fletcher and his Portuguese workers between November 1809 and September 1810, and used to stop Marshal Masséna's 1810 ...
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