Article Index

Many countries have their favourite sport, and many sports are popular in multiple countries - yet, football is the only game that is practiced literally everywhere, because it requires next to no equipment.

Realistically, that leaves enough time to do justice to only one major attraction in Braga. Fortunately, there is an attraction there that is literally head and shoulders above the others.

In the "Orchestra of Portugal", Guimaraes is a piccolo flute

The castle in Lisbon, strategically located, became both a silent witness and a co-creator of every twist and turn of Lisbon's and Portuguese history.

Portuguese visual art is almost completely synonymous with "azulejos"

Portuguese Golden Age based on navigation necessary for negotiating the oceans, would have likely been impossible without a little help from their frenemies.

The history of human civilization is so riddled with wars that peace seems almost like an intermission - yet, while War authors history, Peace creates civilizations.

While Portuguese exploration of the world began in the 14th century and picked up speed in the first quarter of the 15th, it was Manuel's vision, boundless ambition and strategic planning that turned that exploration into a powerful Empire-building tool

No country's history is so interwoven with, and reflected in, its geography as Portugal's.