Zeist is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands and is the capital of the municipality Zeist, located east of the city of Utrecht. The town of „Seist“ was first mentioned in a charter in the year 838. The original settlement was located at the present Dorpsstraat. In the late 12th century, a church was built here. Its tower is now […]
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Nijmegen is a city in the Netherlands‘ province of Gelderland, on the Waal river close to the German border. Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands, the second to be recognized as such in Roman times, and in 2005 celebrated 2,000 years of existence. The municipality is part of the Arnhem–Nijmegen metropolitan area, with 736,107 inhabitants in 2011. Nijmegen is […]
Tilburg is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 217,595 (31 January 2019), it is the second-largest municipality in North Brabant and sixth-largest in the Netherlands. Tilburg University is located in Tilburg, as are Avans University of Applied Sciences and Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Tilburg is known for its ten-day-long funfair,[7] held in July each year. The Monday […]
Den Helder is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Den Helder occupies the northernmost point of the North Holland peninsula. It is home to the country’s main naval base. From here the Royal TESO ferryboat service operates the transportation link between Den Helder and the nearby Dutch Wadden island of Texel to the north. The municipality of Den Helder consists […]
The Iberian Mask and Costume Museum, located on the main street of Cidadela, opened on February 24, 2007, is a space for the dissemination of traditions related to the Masks of the Northeast Transmontano and the Zamora region (partnership between the Municipality of Bragança and the Diputación de Zamora). Its primary objective is to promote […]
The built structure of the current museum may have, in part, its origins in the old Casas da Mitra and in the building of the Colégio de S. Pedro existing in this place in the 17th century. However, the importance of the Bragança city in the context of the Miranda-Bragança diocese and the mandatory residence […]
MISSION Within the scope of its specific capabilities and in the light of the public interest it is responsible for safeguarding, the Portuguese Army is responsible for:Participate in the military defense of the Republic;Ensure the generation, preparation and support of forces and means of the ground component of the Force System;Participate in international missions within […]
It is part of the old convent of Benedictine nuns, ordered to be built by Archbishop D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles, in 1707. With simple exterior architecture, it has a rich interior. Of a single nave, with a chancel in Baroque style. It has an exuberant pulpit of gilded and polychrome. Also noteworthy are the walls covered with […]
The church of Santa Maria Maior de Barcelos is located in an artistic time of transition, between the end of Romanesque art and the beginning of the Gothic construction cycle. Some of the constructive and decorative solutions used here participate in these two arts, which began to be antagonistic, at least in the Île-de-France region, where […]
The first step towards the creation of the Museu de Olaria, in Barcelos, took place in 1949, when the City Council decided to build an underground room designed to house the “ Olaria Barcelense ” – on the terrace of the Paço dos Condes de Barcelos, with half walls Mother Church. It took almost 15 years from the […]
The Archiepiscopal Palace of Braga is a Portuguese episcopal palace in civil parish of Braga (São José de São Lázaro e São João do Souto), in the municipality of the same name, in the northern district of Braga. The Bishopric of Bracara was founded in 388 by Paternus, who became the first bishop of Braga. […]
The Roman Thermae of Maximinus, are the archaeological ruins of a monumental building and public baths, whose construction was integrated into the urban renewal of the civitas of Bracara Augusta, the Roman provincial capital of Gallaecia. The large public/civic construction consisted of a building, housing the baths, and a theatre, although the archaeological excavations continue. […]
From palace to museum The Palácio dos Biscainhos is located on the street that gave it its name, in an allusion to the craftsmen from Biscay who settled here in the 16th century and who worked on the urban development of Braga. The construction of this house started with Constantino Ribeiro do Lago, in the […]
Institution founded in 1513, and formed a Brotherhood by Archbishop D. Diogo de Sousa in 1558, dedicated to the provision of services, for the welfare of the person as a whole, primarily of the most unprotected and promotion of quality of life, assuming the support the most disadvantaged in the practice of the 14 Works […]
The collections of the Treasury-Museum of the Cathedral of Braga, as a whole, testify more than XV centuries of the history of Art and of the life of the Church in Braga. It holds a valuable collection made up of the collections of Jewelery, Sculpture, Painting, Textiles, Furniture, Ceramics, as well as a whole set […]
The notable collections of the Museu de Aveiro with a religious theme or function include nuclei of painting, sculpture, carving, tiles, jewelery, furniture and paramentaria. Most of them come from the Convento de Jesus or from other extinct convents in the city and the country and document different times, from the 15th to the 20th century, […]
The capital of the Ria, a vast lagoon where the freshwater of the River Vouga joins with the sea, Aveiro is intersected by canals, genuine streets of water, along which can be seen gliding the brightly coloured boats known as barcos moliceiros. Originally founded in the time of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Aveiro is […]
Founded in 1980, the Municipal Gallery of Amadora was considered one of the pioneers in gallerist activity at the municipal level. In 1991, she was awarded by the Portuguese Society of Authors, with the trophy of the best Municipal Gallery in the scope of Plastic Arts and, in 1995, with the prize of the best National […]
Bedeteca hosts more than 40 thousand publications, including albums, books, magazines and fanzines, and assumes itself as a privileged space for offering Comics throughout the year, also betting on new technologies and digital comics. In addition to the areas dedicated to albums, books and magazines, Bedeteca has:– Two exhibition areas (a larger one with an […]
asa Roque Gameiro is one of the most notable references of the historical and cultural heritage of the Municipality of Amadora. Having inherited this space, and recognizing its architectural and heritage value, the Amadora City Council has endeavored to reuse it as a House of culture, permanent education and leisure. To this end, it takes advantage […]
From Portas do Sol belvedere in Santarém City, we have a beautiful view of the plains of Ribatejo´s marsh, where the vineyards are predominant, with the flowing waters of Tejo River and behind it all, the beautiful city of Almeirim. Recognized nationally and abroad for its famous “Sopa da Pedra”*, Almeirim is also known for […]
Dom Fernando II e Glória is a wooden-hulled, 50-gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy. She was launched in 1843 and made her maiden voyage in 1845. Built at the shipyard of Daman in Portuguese India, it was Portugal’s last sailing warship to be built and also the last ship that undertook the Carreira da Índia […]
The idea of building the Monument to Cristo Rei arose in 1934, during a visit to Brazil by the then Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira. As he passed through Rio de Janeiro, he saw the imposing image of Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado and right in his heart the desire to build such […]
The monumental baroque fountain at Praça da República do Alandroal, known as Fonte das Bicas, was erected in the early 18th century, to take advantage of the large amount of ground water that can be captured in the village and its surroundings. The water from many springs in the area was considered to be of […]
On a brief visit to Porto, there are some places that cannot be missed. In the words of many visitors, this city has something mystical that is difficult to describe and which varies according to the place, time of day and light. Whatever it is, it certainly has to do with its people, known to […]
Vlaardingen is a city in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is located on the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas river at the confluence with the Oude Maas. The municipality administers an area of 26.69 km2 (10.31 sq mi), of which 23.57 km2 (9.10 sq mi) is land, with 72,404 residents in 2019. A Unilever research centre is located in Vlaardingen (located next to the former Sunlight factory, later called Lever Faberge Sourcing Unit […]
Heerlen; Limburgish: Heële is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the fourth municipality in the province of Limburg. Heerlen forms part of the city-region of Parkstad Limburg, an agglomeration with about 250,000 inhabitants and encompassing 8 municipalities. It is to the east of Maastricht and […]
Zoetermeer is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.05 km2 (14.31 sq mi) of which 2.60 km2 (1.00 sq mi) is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328, making it the third largest population centre in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam and The Hague. […]
Deventer; Sallaans: Daeventer) is a city and municipality in the Salland region of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. In 2020, Deventer had a population of 100,913. The city is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen (with a population of about 5,000 people) was merged with Deventer as […]
Vlissingen; Zeelandic: Vlissienge; historical name in English: Flushing) is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an important harbour for centuries. It was granted city rights in 1315. In the 17th century Vlissingen was a main harbour for ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It is also […]
Venlo is a city and municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, within a couple of miles of the German border. It is situated in the province of Limburg. The municipality of Venlo counted 101,578 inhabitants as of January 2019. Venlo, being a city with a 100,000+ population, is served by a large number of schools both at primary and secondary education levels. […]
Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre. The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen, Ugchelen and Hoenderloo, had a population of 162,445 in 2019. The western half of the municipality lies on the Veluwe ridge, the eastern half lies in the IJssel valley. The oldest known reference to Apeldoorn, then called Appoldro, […]
Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, Midden-Zeeland (consisting of former islands Walcheren, Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland), it has a population of about 48,000. In terms of technology, Middelburg played a role in the Scientific Revolution at the early modern period. The town was historically a center of lens crafting in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. […]
Kampen is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. A member of the former Hanseatic League, it is located at the lower reaches of the river IJssel. The municipality of Kampen had a population of 53,779 in 2019 and covers an area of 161.79 square kilometres (62.47 square miles). Kampen is located in the North West of Overijssel and is the largest city in this region. […]
Zutphen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzʏtfə(n)] (listen)) is a city and municipality located in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It lies some 30 km northeast of Arnhem, on the eastern bank of the river IJssel at the point where it is joined by the Berkel. First mentioned in the 11th century, the place-name appears to mean „south fen“ (zuid-veen in modern Dutch). In 2005, the municipality of Zutphen was merged with the municipality of Warnsveld, retaining […]
Enschede is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border with Germany. The municipality of Enschede consisted of the city of Enschede until 1935, when the rural municipality of Lonneker, which surrounded the city, was annexed after the rapid industrial expansion of Enschede which began […]