UMM (Portuguese: União Metalo-Mecânica, pronounced [uniˈɐ̃w̃ mɨˈtalu mɨˈkɐnikɐ]) is a Portuguese metal works factory and ex-automobile manufacturer based in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1977 with the purpose of manufacturing four-wheel drive vehicles for agricultural, industrial and utility applications.
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SIC (acronym of full name Sociedade Independente de Comunicação) (“Independent Communication Society”) is a Portuguese television network and media company, which runs several television channels. Their flagship channel is the eponymous SIC, the third terrestrial television station in Portugal, launched on 6 October 1992. SIC is owned by Impresa, a Portuguese media conglomerate. It is one of the two private free-to-air channels in Portugal, among the seven terrestrial free-to-air channels […]
Media Capital SGPS, SA, is a Portuguese media corporation founded in 1988 (originally named SOCI – Sociedade de Comunicação Independente, founded by Luís Nobre Guedes), based in Oeiras, Lisbon. Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and is one of the biggest media corporations in Europe. Media Capital distributes 20th Century Fox and […]
Hovione’s facilities at Lumiar Campus include two buildings: Building R, with three floors, which houses corporate services, namely the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing & Communication, Regulatory Affairs, among others. Building S, also with three floors, where the new Hovione Research and Development Center is located, with a total area of 7,600 m2, […]
Skookum Films is a creative video agency founded by a group of artists from Denmark, Portugal and the United States. Our films have been shown in more than 200 festivals from all over the world, our videos have been seen by well over 5 million viewers online and projects for brands such as Google, William Hill or Pandora […]
If you’re stuck for somewhere to go on a rainy day this leisure and shopping centre is just south of the centre of the city. It goes back to 1996, but got an expensive overhaul ten years ago. There are more than 160 shops in a clean, airy building. But if you’re here with family […]
The largest green space in the city is a soothing oak and chestnut forest where the people of Viseu go to recharge their batteries and get active. The park has an interesting history as it was part of a huge estate belonging to the bishops of the city. They built a palace here in the […]
The other striking landmark on the Adro da Sé is this church opposite the cathedral and constructed in the 18th century. It combines Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical design, and if it weren’t for the cross you could almost mistake this building for a palace; the facade grabs you with its pilasters, pediments, shell motifs and […]
Named for one of the most important painters of the Portuguese Renaissance (Grão Vasco), this absorbing museum has painting, sculpture and applied arts from the 1200s to the 1900s. The venue is also exciting, in that seminary by the cathedral. The obligatory works here are the 16th-century painting composed in the 16th century by the […]
This wonderful building was started in the 12th century, during the reign of Portugal’s first king, Afonso Henriques. Seen from the square in front there’s a 17th-century Baroque facade flanked by two towers; the south is medieval, while the north, like the facade, needed to be rebuilt in the 1600s after a storm. That fusion […]
On the northwest limits of the city is a protected mountainous region of granite and schist peaks encompassing more than 70 square kilometres. The highest summits are more than 1,000 metres and the higher ground is enveloped in fresh deciduous forest with oaks, hazel and chestnut trees. If you’re up for some hiking you’re in […]
Nicolau Nasoni, the man who had a lasting impact on Portuguese Baroque architecture, helped design this noble estate in Vila Real. The palace is agreed as one of the finest Baroque civil buildings, constructed in extravagant style for the 3rd Morgado of Mateus in the first half of the 18th century. The property is still […]
The visitor centre for the Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve is the place to get up to speed on the wildlife of the park. It’s a modern complex raised on wooden piles, and smartly designed to have an observation space with a large window facing the marshes. The centre is in 70 hectares of its own […]
Portugal’s largest wetland zone, and one of the top ten in Europe, lies within the Vila Franca de Xira municipality. This reserve is more than 14,000 hectares and was created to ensure a haven for the many thousands of birds that either breed here, winter here or stop by on their migration between African and […]
Vila do Conde has several Atlantic beaches, but Praia Azul, about 500 metres from the old town is the cream of the crop. This Blue Flag beach has a generous swathe of golden sand traced by a promenade and bikeway that runs several kilometres up to Póvoa de Varzim in the north. And despite having […]
Moored at the Cais da Alfandega on the River Ave is a replica of a 16th-century carrack, exactly the kind of ship that would have been built at Vila do Conde’s dockyards at the time. This vessel was launched in 2007 using ancestral carpentry and rope-making skills . One of the many interesting things about […]
In the 15th-century Royal Customs House on the quayside is a museum charting the shipbuilding trade that claimed the entire Ave Riverside through the Early Modern Age and up to the 20th century. With model boats, tools and tableaux the museum handles three different fields. First you’ll delve into the Portuguese Age of Discovery, when […]
The Gil Eannes Hospital Ship , built in Viana do Castelo in the Shipyards of Viana do Castelo, started its activity as a hospital in 1955, supporting for decades, the Portuguese cod fleet that operated in the banks of Terra Nova and Greenland. With the cod fleet deactivated, it was left to rot on the docks of […]
This long square in the centre of the old town is somewhere you’ll returning, whether on a sightseeing tour or just to take the weight off for a few minutes with a shot of coffee or cold beer. It is totally pedestrianised, and has many centuries-old buildings. You’ll be drawn towards the old city hall, […]
Policlínica Vianense is a private health unit on an outpatient basis that has human and technical resources to respond with quality and rigor to the growing demands and needs of today’s society.In an atmosphere of teamwork and constant search for solutions, the Polyclinic focuses mainly on the patient in order to provide the best possible […]
The Clínica Oftalmológica de Viana do Castelo is a private health unit in the field of ophthalmology, equipped with the most modern equipment, capable of responding to any problem related to vision under the premises of rigor, speed and absolute control. Located in the center of Viana do Castelo, in modern, comfortable facilities, easily accessible […]
Embalminho is a company that aims to satisfy its partners and seeks to respond to their needs, continuously improving their internal processes. MISSION : To commercialize packaging products, essentially for the Industry, covering the entire North and Central Portugal. VISION : To aspire to excellence, consolidating its action in the current market, becoming a reference in the […]
The thermobox dedicated to the production and marketing of products in expanded polystyrene (EPS) commonly known in the Portuguese market by the name “Styrofoam”. We operate in two areas, manufacture of EPS packaging and manufacture of a construction system called ICF (Insulated concrete forms) innovative product for the construction of buildings. We produce EPS products using the […]
Rotovedras, founded in 2005, is the Portuguese company of reference and market leader in the manufacture of products, through the rotational molding process. The great growth, verified in the last years, comes from the modernization and the great investment in internationalization, thus allowing greater visibility of the company in other markets, namely the markets of […]
Helen Doron – World Leader in Teaching English as a Second Language More than 30 years ago, Helen Doron had a moment of inspiration while watching her daughter learn the violin using the Suzuki method. In effect, Dr. Suzuki taught how to play the violin by listening to music and not reading music. Helen realized that this […]
Created in 2005, the Escola Internacional de Torres Vedras arises from the effort to create an irreverent educational institution, marked by educational quality, focused on training young people for the challenges of the modern world and with the objective of exploiting to the maximum thepotential of each and every educator entrusted to us. We are a private […]
The CUF Torres Vedras Hospital is located next to the Health Center and the Torres Vedras Hospital, being a unit dedicated to serving the population of the municipalities of the Western Region, on an outpatient and inpatient basis. This hospital has a wide range of specialty consultations, surgeries and complementary diagnostic methods, serving the health […]
At Diaverum, our mission is to improve the quality of life of kidney patients. All clinics have an interdisciplinary team that works in a collaborative, coordinated and absolutely committed manner with each person undergoing treatment and consequently in their care plan. As a team we are totally focused on the multiple needs of each person, […]
Torres Vedras’ municipal museum is in the Convento da Graça and is brimming with artefacts unearthed at the local archaeological sites. There’s a prehistoric settlement a few moments to the west, yielding tools and ceramics, while models of the copper smelting furnaces have been constructed. There are also Roman inscribed stones, mosaics and jewellery from […]
On the steep forested slopes north of the city is the castle, which has been in use on and off for almost 2,000 years. The Romans were the first to occupy this site, constructing two cisterns, while the Moors erected the first walls. When the Christians took over in 1148 they pulled these down, but […]
Under the village of Lapas two kilometres from Torres Novas is a spectacular labyrinth of tunnels hewn from the soft tufa rock. Just who dug these tunnels and for what purpose remains a bit of an enigma; theories vary from Neolithic tribes for shelter, to Christians seeking refuge during Roman times or the Moors for […]
Torres Novas has accumulated more than 30 works by Carlos Reis. These are in the municipal museum’s and match pastoral landscapes with portraits of rural folk. His paintings are hung next to works by other respected Portuguese artists, like José Malhoa, who worked at roughly the same time and was also inspired by pastoral themes. […]
The standout monument in every sense, the Castle of Torrres Novas is a sign of the town’s political and strategic value in medieval times. It was raised by the Moors in the 1100sm, and once it was securely in Christian hands became part of the Tagus Line (Linha do Tejo). This was a system of […]
The Torres Novas Medical Center is a private clinic with 200 m2, has about 25 Medical Specialties and more than 30 professionals with an interest in the scientific field, some of them linked to the area of research and teaching. The entire space of the clinic allows the circulation of people with reduced mobility in […]
VISÃO Ser uma empresa de referência no domínio da Construção Civil e nas Infraestruturas de Águas e Esgotos, no âmbito da contratação pública e segmento privado, apostando constantemente na inovação e na promoção contínua do seu aperfeiçoamento técnico. MISSÃO Intervir de forma competente no setor da Construção, e assegurar a prestação de serviços de qualidade, […]
The Torres Novas Professional School was created on August 3, 1991, resulting from the signing of a program contract between the Torres Novas City Council, NERSANT – Santarém Region Business Association, ACIS – Association of Municipality Retailers Torres Novas, Entroncamento, Alcanena and Golegã and the Ministry of Education. Decree-Law nº4 / 98 of 8 January, […]