Arts and Culture

Arts and Culture

Calçada Portuguesa, Traditional Hand-made Portuguese Pavement

Calçada Portuguesa, Traditional Hand-made Portuguese Pavement

  The Portuguese Pavements are  a worthy heritage, a kind of decorative art mainly of Greek-Roman origin, is widely used to pave pedestrian areas, streets, squares and other public or private spaces. Beside their functionality, the various decorative patterns made on the basis of chromatic contrast of stones give rise to works of significant aesthetic […]

Mira´s Lagoon Caretos

Mira´s Lagoon Caretos

In Mira´s Lagoon survives  until today an inheritance with cultural content and distinctive historical and whose origin is lost in the mists of time. The  Lagoon Caretos, well known to all Mirenses,  are  unique and important Carnival figures that marks  the local cultural identity. In a din of screams and rattles run all the strets, […]

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