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My beautiful country

Sports

Attractions

Islands

History

Famous People

Flag

Capital

Country

Government

Country

Our country is a paradise with medieval castles, storied cities, golden beaches, cobblestone villages, and friendly locals.

Currency: Euro

Population: 10.148 million

Climate: Mild, hot summers and cold winters

Location

Flag

Our flag is made up of dark green, red, the coat of arms and the amilar sphere

Location

Capital

Our country is located in the southwest of Europe

Linked with the sea, the country has more than 800 kilometers of enticing Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Borders

Borders

Government

REPUBLIC

Prime Minister: António Costa

President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

official residence- S.Bento Palace

PARLIAMENT

Capital

The largest city of our country, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.

Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.8 million people.

History

Our country may be small, but its contributions to the world have been huge.

It played a vital role during Europe’s Age of Discoveries and Exploration, and many of the country’s most popular monuments were built to commemorate this period.

Prince Henry the Navigator was one of the first big players in our country during this period.

Explorer Vasco da Gama, was the first European to reach India by water, having developed a route around Africa.

Christopher Columbus resided in Lisbon for a few years before exploring the Americas, and it was here that he gained some of his knowledge and training on navigating the Atlantic Ocean.

Caravel of discoveries

Landmarks of the

Age of Discovery

Landmarks

Today, we can appreciate this time period by visiting a few major landmarks around Lisbon.

Belém is a synonymous with Portugal's golden Age of Discovery.

One is the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, or the ‘Discoveries Monument’, constructed in Belém during the 1960s as a memorial to Henry the Navigator.

The most interesting monument, however, may be the Jerónimos Monastery, built during the 1500s in honor of that time, and specifically of Vasco da Gama’s trip to India.

Belém Tower stands as a symbol of the Age of Discovery and the voyages of exploration undertaken in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Discoveries Monument

Jerónimos Monastery

Guimarães,

the birthplace of Portugal

The city of Guimarães, classified by UNESCO as World Heritage in 2001, is a city of incomparable historical importance

Portugal Was Born Here

The Castle of Guimarães is said to be where the first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, was born in 1110.

It is one of the most symbolic and important monuments of the history of Portugal.

Nation birthplace

Famous people

There are well-known Portuguese people working and living in Europe and the world.

Daniela Ruah, actress in NCIS Los Angeles

Sara Sampaio, Top Model

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

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Singers

Music/Singers

Toni Carreira, one of our singers who sang at the Olympia, in Paris, in 2000 and 2001.

Salvador Sobral, winner of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.

Pedro Abrunhosa, known for always wearing sunglasses in public.

The soul of our music

Amália

Fado music

Across the world Fado (literally "fate") is a musical symbol of our culture and tradition.

A type of singing, traditionally associated with pubs and cafés (Bairro Alto, in Lisbon), that is renowned for its expressive and profoundly melancholic character.

It was Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) who represented FADO for many years in foreign countries, and more recently it is Mariza, Dulce Pontes, Kátia Guerreiro, among others.

Amália at Olympia Paris

Mariza

Dulce Pontes

Famous Misters in Europe

Misters /Coaches

José Mourinho, the special one, Tottenham, UK

Pedro Martins, Olympiakos, Greece

Paulo Fonseca, Roma, Italy

Nuno Espírito Santo, Wolves, UK

Jorge Jesus, Flamengo, Brazil

Fernando Santos, our Football National Team

Luís de Camões, Portugal’s great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572; The Lusiads), which describes Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route to India

Writers

José Saramago, who has died aged 87, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998 and was Portugal's most prolific and best-known 20th-century writer.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest poets whose modernist work gave Portuguese literature European Significance.

Sports

Athletics

Football

Sports are important in our culture.

Football is the most popular sport in our country.

Other than football, many other professional or semi-professional well organized sport competitions take place every season in Portugal, including:

basketball, swimming, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, futsal, rink hockey, team handball, volleyball, surfing, canoeing and rugby union championships among the hundreds of sports played in this country.

Athletics

Marathon

There are several famous athletes, in different sports, who have already won Olympic medals

Our country:

- has won Olympic medals in 9 sports

- has won Olympic medals in 15 Olympic Games

38 Portuguese athletes have won an Olympic medal

Medals in the Olympic Games

- 4 gold medals

- 8 silver medals - in total 11 athletes have won a silver medal.

- 12 bronze medals - in total 26 athletes have won a bronze medal.

Marathon

Triathlon

Triple Jump

Judo

Canoe & Kayak

Football

How could a country producing one of the world’s most famous footballers, Cristiano Ronaldo, not have football as one of its most popular sports?

The Premier League is the professional football league of Portugal, home to the Big Three teams; S. L. Benfica, Sporting CP, and FC Porto.

Champions

2016 UEFA European Football Championship

2019 UEFA Nations League

Champions

Attractions

Our country has many attractions.

It is famous for:

The Algarve beaches (Falésia,Rocha..)

The Porto Wine Caves ( Porto wine)

Bairro Alto, in Lisbon

University of Coimbra

Sweet "Pastel de Belém"

The

Festivities

S. João, Porto, 24th June

S. António, Lisbon, 13th June

Sra. da Agonia, Viana do Castelo, 13th August

Feast of Tabuleiros, Tomar, June or July

Fair of S.Mateus, Viseu, July and August

Viagem Medieval, Feira, August

Feast of the flowers, Campo Maior, August

Festivities

Mountains

In summer or winter, our mountains are the perfect scenery for a few relaxing days in contact with nature.

Mount Pico (2351m) at Pico island.

Torre (1993m) at Estrela mountain.

Pico Ruivo (1861m),the highest peak of madeira island.

Mountains

Mountain of Estrela

The highest mountain i the continent

Estrela

At 1,993 metres at its highest point in Torre, Serra da Estrela is an area of rare landscape beauty, with striking mountain drops, where you can have a deep experience of the silence of the heights.

Mountain of Gerês

The Mountain of Gerês is a mountain range of breathtaking beauty found in northern remote Minho region of our country.

Set within the glorious Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês, one of the top places to visit in our country.

Gerês is also famous for the waterfalls.

Gerês

Festivals

Rock in Rio Nos Alive

M

Meo Sudoeste

Festivals

To visit

Must visit

Visiting our country is to discover a remarkably diverse destination.

It is a a gorgeous country to explore that just seems to draw us back time.

Braga is known as the Rome of our country

It's the perfect place to see some of our most impressive buildings and history.

Braga

Make sure you visit Sé de Braga and Bom Jesus do Monte, our grandest religious sanctuary, considered UNESCO World Culture heritage.

The birthplace of our nation

Its historic town centre is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Guimarães

The second largest city in our country

Set aside the Douro River, Porto is one of the most eclectic destinations in Europe.

Porto

The Venice of our country

A landscape dominated by water -

Moliceiro Boats

- Beach of Costa Nova

- Beach of Barra

Aveiro

Near to both the mountains and the sea.

It is located on the banks of Mondego river

Coimbra

University of Coimbra, one of the oldest in the world.

Most significant Roman site

Conímbriga

Our country has so many cities to visit and see that it is impossible to make reference to all of them!

Other cities

It was founded by the Knights Templar in the 12th century

Famous for the monastery and churches

Tomar

One blockbuster monument

Alcobaça

Alcobaça Monastery

It is famous for its imposing Palace-Convent, the largest edifice in our country.

Mafra

A small city famous for its monastery

Batalha

Sanctuary of Our

Lady of Fátima

It has become the fourth biggest catholic pilgrimage site in the world, due to the apparitions of Virgin Mary to three little shepherds in 1917.

Fátima

Historic and University town

lying at the heart of Alentejo

Évora

Sintra

Sintra, the Moon Hill, is a place full of magic and mystery, where Nature and Man have combined in such a perfect symbiosis that UNESCO has granted it Word Heritage Site status.

Pena Palace

Sintra

Regaleira Palace

The city

Queijadas of Sintra

Pena Park

Islands

Madeira

  • Madeira Island

  • Azores Island

Transport between the two main islands is by plane, or ferries from the Porto Santo Line, the latter also carrying vehicles.

Azores

Madeira

The capital of Madeira Island is Funchal which is located on the main island's south coast.

Madeira is a popular year-round resort, being visited every year by about 1.4 million tourists.

It's famous for:

Madeira wine

Fireworks on the New Year's Eve

Festival of flowers

Madeira Islands

Madeira Islands

Azores

The capital of Azores is Ponta Delgada, where one of the most beautiful monuments is located in São Miguel Island.

Famous for:

whale and dolphin watching

spectacular landscapes

hotsprings

Madeira Islands

Madeira Islands

Azores Islands

Azores Islands

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