loserpair:

“Despite the common state of war prevailing between Iberia and the Netherlands interchange, commercial and intellectual, continued. In fact the ties that began to develop between Portugal and the Low Countries in the first half of the sixteenth century strengthened through the years of war. (…)

The Dutch imitated the Portuguese not just in moving rapidly from little in the way of map making to European leadership. The methods introduced and the thinking about mapping and navigation in the northern Low Countries also had roots in Portuguese practice. (…)

Dutch cartographers may offer the most obvious and most graphic case of reliance on Portuguese precedent for their own scientific advances but that pattern should be taken as an indication of something considerably broader and deeper.”

Read the full article here

dean-loves-cas:

Manifestation in Portugal today.

deepitforest:

Alentejo, Portugal

trevo4folhas:

25 de Abril - Uma Aventura Para a Demokracya
Edgar Pêra // with English subtitles // 15:51 minutes

A “remix styled” experimental documentary about the 1974 Revolution that overthrew Estado Novo regime in Portugal, made with a collection of audio and video footage of that time.

hadrianestou:

António de Oliveira Salazar, prime minister of Portugal from 1932 till 1968, also known as dictator of the Estado Novo. 

portugalsecrets:

25 de Abril - Revolução dos Cravos

The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup began on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal, and which overthrew the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. The revolution started as a military coup organized by the Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement, MFA), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance. This movement would lead to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies.

The name “Carnation Revolution” comes from the fact no shots were fired and when the population started descending the streets to celebrate the end of the dictatorship and war in the colonies, carnation flowers were put into the muzzles of rifles and on the uniforms of the army.

The Portuguese celebrate the national holiday of Freedom Day (Portuguese: Dia da Liberdade) on 25 April every year to celebrate these events.

trevo4folhas:

“ESTE JORNAL NÃO FOI VISADO POR QUALQUER COMISSÃO DE CENSURA”

(‘This journal was not revised by any censorship comission’)

travelingcolors:

Praia do Camilo, Algarve | Portugal (by visiteurope)