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    Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring the westernmost point in continental...
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    Bom Jesus do Monte, Braga, Portugal, by Carlos Luís Ferreira Amarante and others, c. 1784 Baroque architecture in Portugal lasted about two centuries...
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    Azulejo (redirect from Portuguese tile)
    constitute a major aspect of Portuguese architecture and Spanish architecture to this day and are fixtures of buildings across Portugal, Spain and their former...
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    City of Brussels (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 26 October 2023. "Rue du Marché aux Porcs – Inventaire du patrimoine...
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    references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic West or architecture of the Western...
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    period of Gothic architecture, which partly or entirely rebuilt most Romanesque churches in prosperous areas like England and Portugal. The largest groups...
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    French flamboyant 'flaming') is a lavishly-decorated style of Gothic architecture that appeared in France and Spain in the 15th century, and lasted until...
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    architecture, 20th-century French colonial architecture, and modern architecture. Much of Morocco's traditional architecture is marked by the style that developed...
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    The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes)...
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    The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) is a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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    Jerónimos Monastery (category Gothic architecture in Portugal)
    Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery (Portuguese: Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, IPA: [muʃˈtɐjɾu ðu(ʒ) ʒɨˈɾɔnimuʃ]) is a former monastery of the Order...
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    French: [aʁ nuvo] ; lit. 'New Art') is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired...
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    metals) that was received from the Portuguese colonies of Brazil and Maranhão. John spent lavishly on ambitious architectural works, most notably Mafra Palace...
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    operation of locks. The Pont du Gard in southern France Barbegal aqueduct, France Aqueduto de São Sebastião, in Coimbra, Portugal Eifel aqueduct, Germany Caesarea...
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    Déco de Goiânia (in Portuguese). Ateliê. ISBN 85-7480-090-2. Vincent, G.K. (2008). A History of Du Cane Court: Land, Architecture, People and Politics...
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    Neolithic architecture refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period. In southwest...
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    The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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    Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages...
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  • da Música opens in Porto, Portugal, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas with Office for Metropolitan Architecture. 2004 – 30 St Mary Axe (also...
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    Gare do Oriente (category Railway stations in Portugal opened in 1998)
    Gare do Oriente (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡaɾɨ ðu oɾiˈẽtɨ]), or alternately, the Lisbon Oriente Station is one of the main Portuguese intermodal transport...
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    of monuments in Casablanca Moroccan architecture Architecture of Fez Landmarks of Marrakesh l'Africain, Léon; Du Hecquet, Adrien (1556). Historiale description...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula...
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  • The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The...
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    Angra do Heroísmo (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    do Heroísmo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐ̃ɡɾɐ ðu eɾuˈiʒmu] ), or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the...
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  • Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely...
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    while still possessing a Portuguese flavour. In terms of architecture, much like many sections of the arts, the Portuguese Renaissance did not, initially...
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    The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈta.ðu ˈno.vu], lit. 'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from...
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    Vila do Conde (category Cities in Portugal)
    Conde (pronounced [ˈvilɐ ðu ˈkõdɨ] , locally [ˈbilɐ ðu ˈkoŋdɨ]; "the Count's Town") is a municipality in the Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2011...
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  • original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2022. "Architecture Canada > Honours & Awards > Awards > Prix du XXe siècle". www.raic.org. Archived from the original...
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    (European Portuguese pronunciation: [viˈɐnɐ ðu kɐʃˈtɛlu] ) is a municipality and seat of the district of Viana do Castelo in the Norte Region of Portugal. The...
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