Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
Arquivo Distrital da Guarda; Arquivo Distrital de Leiria; Arquivo Distrital de Lisboa (abolished in 2012; materials transferred to the Torre do Tombo National Archive) [1] [2] Arquivo Distrital de Portalegre; Arquivo Distrital do Porto (est. 1931) [3] Arquivo Distrital de Santarém; Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal ; Arquivo Distrital de Viana do ...
The 1571 atlas was reproduced in colour, with a reconstructed frontispiece, and, inexplicably, with the Eastern Mediterranean plate from the 1576 atlas included without any explanation, in "Atlas de Fernao Vaz Dourado : reprodcao fidelissima do exemplar do Torre do Tombo, datado de Goa, 1571", Porto: Livraria Civilizacao, 1948.
The castle also served as a theater in 1502 when pioneering playwright Gil Vicente staged his Monólogo do Vaqueiro to honor the birth of Manuel I's son and heir, the future João III. [7] Around the early 16th century, following the construction of the Ribeira Palace beside the Tagus river, the Palace of Alcáçova began to lose its importance ...
In 2007, the Portuguese Government initiated a project to make available online by 2010 a significant part of the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition (more than 35,000 processes) currently deposited in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, the Portuguese National Archives. [102]
Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde [a] (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), "for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa", [2] (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s.
He describes in a diary from the first journey from Portugal to Brazil and their arrival in this country. [1] This letter is considered to be the first document of Brazilian history as much as its first literary text. [2] The original of this 27-page document can be found in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon.
Bento de Moura Portugal' was born in Moimenta da Serra (Gouveia, Portugal) [5] [6], and in 1741, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for his scientific contributions, particularly in improving Savery's "fire engine." [1] [3] [7] He was born on March 21, 1702, in Moimenta da Serra, and the house where