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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 .
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.
Lioz (Portuguese: pedra lioz), also known as Royal Stone (pedra real), is a type of limestone, originating in Portugal, from the Lisbon region. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is famed for its use as an ornamental stone , resulting in its proliferation in palaces , cathedrals , and important civic buildings throughout Portugal and the former Portuguese Empire .
There is a hypothesis that provides petroglyphs of Ingá an exceptional importance from the archeoastronomical point of view. In 1976, the Spanish engineer Francisco Pavía Alemany started a mathematical study of this archaeological monument. The first results were published in 1986 by the Instituto de Arqueologia Brasileira. [2]
Bola de Neve Church [a] is a Brazilian neopentecostal church that was founded in São Paulo in 1999 [1] by pastor and former surfer Rinaldo Luiz de Seixas Pereira (April 15, 1972 – November 17, 2024), colloquially known as "Apóstolo [b] Rina" or "AP", who also served as the church's president from its inception until his controversial suspension in June 2024 due to accusations of domestic ...
Bolas or bolases (sg.: bola; from Spanish and Portuguese bola, "ball", also known as a boleadora or boleadeira) is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs.
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 ...
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.