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A funeral march (marche funèbre in French, marcia funebre in Italian, Trauermarsch in German, marsz żałobny in Polish), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.
The Teatro Baquet was built by António Pereira. Work began on 21 February 1858, and the theatre was first used for a masked Carnival ball on 13 February 1859. Born in Porto, António Pereira emigrated to Spain with his family in 1828, where he learned to be a tailor.
Porto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Al Porto (1926 – 2005), Major League Baseball pitcher; Alex Porto (born 1986), Brazilian football player; Avelino Porto (born 1935), Argentine lawyer and the founder of the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires
Porto (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ), also known as Oporto, [a] is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas.
Vítor José da Silva Fernandes (5 April 1980 –15 July 2021), best known by his stage name Natasha Semmynova, was a Portuguese drag queen, singer, and makeup artist. [1] [2] Emerging in the late 1990s, Fernandes became a central figure in Porto's drag scene and helped shape LGBTQ+ nightlife and culture in Portugal. [3]
Fernando Mendes Soares Gomes (22 November 1956 – 26 November 2022) was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker.. He achieved great success with Porto, during the late 1970s and 1980s.
The Chapel of Santa Catarina, also known as the Chapel of Souls (pt: Capela das Almas), is a chapel located on the shopping street of Rua de Santa Catarina, in the former parish of Santo Ildefonso, in the city of Porto, in Portugal.
The film director Manoel de Oliveira was born in Cedofeita in 1908.; Cecília Meireles a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal since 2009, representing the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP), and a former Secretary of State for Tourism, was born in Cedofeita in 1977