Article Index

For some reason, human beings are really obsessed with extremes. They never fail to feel duly impressed by the word "most" and its equivalents represented by the "est" suffix of an adjective.

The sense of involvement - and ultimately, belonging - is crucial for fado, and it's Portuguese language that helps to understand just how crucial.

So big and authentic was the need, and so genuine the passion that what started centuries ago as a spontaneous reaction of affected underprivileged communities has grown into a fabric of Portuguese national identity.

That event shattered the country and reimagined it for centuries to come in a variety of ways.

The "students wing" of the exhibition explores a unique combination of need and opportunity that ferments young individuals into a cohesive social force.

The science hub, formally known as Campus II, is much plainer, much more down to earth (or its components, as the cover picture may suggest), and it's clearly designed to engage and foster the mind rather than delight and massage the soul.

Joanina Library is by far the most famous part of the university complex, and it proves its status by, so-to-say, shaping one's schedules. To visit the library, one needs to buy a separate ticket, and such a ticket comes with a time slot.

Taking pictures on the Noble Floor hosting all the splendor the library boasts would likely result not only in the offender's immediate removal from the premises but also in criminal charges for manslaughter

The small mountain town populated by about 20,000 people is a significant natural, cultural and even culinary attraction.