Dia de Portugal... Dia da Raça?

Assinala-se hoje o Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas.
Cavaco Silva, o Presidente da República, fez referência ao Dia da Raça, designação do Dia de Portugal até ao 25 de Abril de 1974.

Fonte: Público
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Curiosidade:
Para acolher as comemorações, a Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo instalou um tapede de relva com 9000 metros quadrados, comprada em Santarém, ao preço de 3,2 euros o metro quadrado, em cuja colocação participaram militares do Regimento de Engenharia de Espinho e o pessoal de jardinagem da Câmara.

Fonte: SOL

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The Police em Portugal no Estádio Nacional do Jamor.
The Police live in estadio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal 2007.
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Under the Algarve sun

If you like your beaches, the Algarve is a great choice. There is everything possible to ensure the best of holidays in the sun. With an amenable year round climate, the Algarve season extends beyond high summer and enables you to choose less crowded periods of the year. That is, from mid-April through to October, the sun is - almost - always out thus extending the pleasures of the Algarve’s beaches far beyond August.

Long beaches are broken only by irregular rock forms including odd and mysterious cave formations that may be visited by boat. Some luxury hotels, given their exclusive sea-frontage are in the very best position for enjoyment of this fine environment.

Visit the stores of the Vilamoura marina and admire the splendid yachts at anchor over an ice cream on a café terrace

Of the diverse range of cuisine available across the Algarve, musts include the shellfish and potato ‘cataplana’ copper-cooked stew accompanied by lavish glasses of chilled white. Such dinner is perfect before setting out to tour the lively and long lasting Algarve nightlife. There are as many places to drink as there are to dance – and that is through to day break at Praia da Rocha, in Galé, Praia da Oura, or alternatively in Vilamoura.

-Gastronomy of the Algarve

-Beaches of Ria Formosa
-From Sagres to Vilamoura
-Beaches of the Algarve
-Algarve: marinas & ...
-Sailing Vilamoura

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Dia de Portugal e de Camões

Oficialmente Dia de Camões, de Portugal e das Comunidades Portuguesas. A data do falecimento de Luís Vaz de Camões em 1580 é utilizada para relembrar os feitos passados.

Dia de Portugal (Portugal Day) or in the full extent Dia de Portugal, de CAMÕES e das Comunidades Portuguesas (Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese communities Day) marks the date of Luis de Camões death in June 10th, 1580 and it is Portugal's national holiday. Camões wrote The Lusiadas, Portugal's national epic.

Portuguese discoveries brought fame and fortune to Portugal and a national idea of union and common aim, becoming a symbol of the greatness of the nation. Camões lived most of his life as an adventurer, lost an eye in Ceuta, wrote the Portuguese epic in his voyages and saved himself and his book from a shipreck in Conchinchina (today's Vietnam). Thus, he became a Portuguese symbol, and in the year of his death, Portugal started to be ruled by Spanish kings. Sixty years later, in December 1, 1640, the country regained a national-born king. No one knows where and when Camões was born, thus the date of his death, the only date that is actually known, gained importance as a symbol of Portugal.

During the Estado Novo regime in the 20th Century, Camões was used as a symbol for the Portuguese race. In 1944, in the ceremony of the inauguration of the National Stadium, Salazar refered to June 10th as the Race Day. It was believed that the Portuguese had a single and common ancestry and it served fascist purposes. Because of that, the June 10th celebrations were stopped after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, although some celebrations continued without official recognition. After 1974, the celebration started having different purposes, especially celebrating the Portuguese emigres around the world (Comunidades Portuguesas, Portuguese communities).

From: http://www.upec.org/dia_de_portugal.html