• King's Chief Guard, or Chief of the King's Corps, (guarda-mor do rei, or guarda-mor do Corpo do Rei in Portuguese) was an officer of the Crown of Castile...
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    The Rua do Guarda-Mor (Portuguese for "Street of the chief archivist") is a street in Lisbon, Portugal, which formerly belonged to the parish (freguesia)...
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    The Sanctuary of Christ the King (Portuguese: Santuário de Cristo Rei) is a Catholic monument and shrine dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ...
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    The Praça do Comércio (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɾasɐ ðu kuˈmɛɾsju]; transl. Commerce Plaza) is a large, harbour-facing plaza in Portugal's capital...
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  • government context. Luís Amaral (2022). Livro do Guarda-Mor - Elenco de Títulos Nobiliárquicos Portugueses. Guarda-Mor. p. 42. Selfie (2023-10-07). "Recorde o...
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    Gomes, Carlos (1996), SIPA (ed.), Convento do Carmo/Comando Geral da Guarda Nacional Republicana, GNR, do Carmo (IPA.00005069/PT031106270328) (in Portuguese)...
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    named the castle master builder to replace Afonso Esteves, being paid 400 réis for his work. Between 1448 and 1451, the master builder was paid several...
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    archive. These include gargoyles that figure as the Guarda do Abecedário (Guard of the Alphabet), the Guarda das Ondas Hertzianas (Guard of Hertzian Waves)...
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    the institution without any charges. The cost of the arena was 161 200$000 réis, paid by a group of Portuguese shareholders, who kept the property rights...
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    anchor point adjacent to the recently-built Christ the King monument (Cristo-Rei). In 1959, the international invitation to tender for the project received...
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    Luís Amaral & Marcos Soromenho Santos (2002), Costados do Duque de Bragança, Lisboa, Guarda-Mor Edições. Afonso Eduardo Martins Zuquete (dir.)(1989), Nobreza...
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    accusations before the Inquisition. In 1548, Góis was named Guarda-Mor (High Guardian) of the Torre do Tombo (Royal Archives) and ten years later was entrusted...
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    The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum...
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    (link) Resende, Garcia de (1622), Crónica dos Valerosos e Insignes Feitos del Rei D. João II (in Portuguese), Lisbon, p. 115 "A Torre de Belém", Serões (in...
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    with the Estoril Coast (Costa do Estoril) and occasionally known as the Costa do Sol (Sun Coast). Portuguese themselves do not use this expression. The...
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    crests, which the Livro do Armeiro-Mor does not present. Thesouro de Nobreza covers more topics than the Livro do Armeiro-Mor, including several innovations...
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  • trauert um Willi Giesemann (in German) Morreu Daniel Guimarães, antigo guarda-redes do Nacional (in Portuguese) 'Iron Chef' star Yukio Hattori dies at 78...
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    Bernardas, the building of the Rua das Janelas Verdes, the Rua do Guarda-Mor, or the Rua do Sacramento. It also hosts many embassies, in particular, Austria...
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    merchants from Porto, when it was sold in 1892 to Carvalho Monteiro for 25,000 réis. Monteiro was eager to build a bewildering place where he could collect symbols...
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    The Monteiro-Mor Palace (Portuguese: Palácio do Monteiro-Mor) is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal. Monteiro-Mor Palace is located in the...
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  • descend to their heirs: Duke of Barcelos Duke of Beja Duke of Coimbra Duke of Guarda Duke of Guimarães Duke of Porto Duke of Trancoso Duke of Viseu All of these...
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    [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ ˈʒuʃtɐ]), also called Carmo Lift (Portuguese: Elevador do Carmo, [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðu ˈkaɾmu]), is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish...
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    The Quinta dos Lagares d'El-Rei (Portuguese: Solar da Quinta dos Lagares d'El-Rei; [ˈkĩtɐ ðuʒ lɐˈɣaɾɨʒ ðɛl ˈʁɐj], "Estate of the King's Wine-Vats"), is...
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    The Estoril Casino (Portuguese: Casino do Estoril) is a casino in the Portuguese Riviera, in the municipality of Cascais, Portugal. Today, it is one of...
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    paint the Kings of Portugal: the regal series was placed in the Sala dos Reis (Hall of the Kings). Henrique Ferreira was also commissioned to complete...
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    encouraged the development of commercial activities in the small village of Aldeia do Restelo, which attracted mariners and other seafarers seeking safe anchorage...
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    Estêvão, São Vicente de Fora and part of the two streets, "Freguesia da Sé: Rua do Barão" and "Rua São João da Praça". It contains many important historical...
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    It consists of the grid of streets north of the Praça do Comércio, roughly between the Cais do Sodré and the Alfama district beneath the Lisbon Castle...
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    Portuguese). Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 13 December 2021. "Vestígios da mesquita do século XII descoberta na Sé de Lisboa vão ser preservados" (in European Portuguese)...
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  • Sobral Praça do Relógio, Taguatinga, Federal District Relógio da Praça Oito, Vitória Relógio da Avenida Goiás, Goiânia Praça Guarda Mor Francisco José...
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