World Trips & Tips

28/08/2020

20/06/2020

Save Water they say!

18/06/2020

Always!

18/06/2020

Athens Street Art

16/06/2020

National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Founded in 1829, is one of the most important antique museums in the world, with a vast collection of artifacts and works of art from the Greek civilization from its beginnings to the end of the Romanized era.
From April until October 31st:
Tuesday: 12:30 – 20:00
From Wednesday until Monday: 08:00 – 20:00
Admission fee: 12€

15/06/2020

Acropolis of Athens

10/06/2020

10 de Junho
Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades

27/04/2020

Street art in Athens
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25/04/2020

25th April 1974
The April revolution or carnation revolution took place on April 25, 1974.
A political and social movement that overthrew the dictatorial regime in force since 1933.
This action was led by the Movement of the Armed Forces (MFA), a military movement composed mainly of captains who participated in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1975).
This movement started in 1973, initially based on corporate claims.
On April 24, 1974, a group of soldiers, commanded by Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (2), secretly installed the command post of the coup movement in Lisbon. At 10:55 pm, Paulo de Carvalho's song “E depois do Adeus” is broadcast, a very popular song for having won “Festival da Canção”. At 00h20 the song “Grândola Vila Morena” by Zeca Afonso (3) is transmitted, a song that was prohibited because, according to the government, it alluded to Communism.
The military coup has the collaboration of several military regiments that develop a concerted action, the regime reacts and the Minister of Defense orders that the forces based in Braga advance on Porto, an order not obeyed since they would have already joined the military coup.
Terreiro do Paço (Lisbon) is occupied in the early hours of the morning by the Escola Prática de Cavalaria commanded by captain Salgueiro Maia (4), who later moves part of his forces to the Quartel do Carmo where Marcelo Caetano, head of the government, met.
At the end of the day, Marcelo Caetano surrenders, demanding that power be handed over to General António Spínola, and leaves for Madeira towards exile in Brazil.
With reduced military power and massive support from the population, the reaction of the regime was practically non-existent, registering only 4 dead and 45 injured in Lisbon, affected by the DGS.
Celeste Caeiro (5), started the distribution of red carnations by the citizens, these carnations would be offered to visitors of the restaurant where she worked for the celebration of the 1st year of opening. The citizens offered them to the soldiers and they put them in the barrels of their shotguns, thus becoming the red carnation, the symbol of the revolution.
Pics from Internet @ 25 de Abril 1974 - Sempre

23/04/2020

Friday 13 in Montalegre

The event started in 2002 and has become one of the main events in the municipality of Montalegre, capital of mysticism, having been replicated on different Fridays 13 until today.
It is one of the biggest street parties in the country and attracts thousands of people from different parts of Portugal and Galicia (Spain). In 2017, 60 thousand people were present.
The party starts at 13h13 and the sound of rockets marks the opening of the festivities in the square in front of the Town Hall.
The high point is led by the Priest António Fontes, who is responsible for making the traditional burning, a drink made from brandy, lemon, apple, cinnamon and sugar and that “hides all evils”.
The Priest António Fontes is the main promoter of the Congress of Popular Medicine in Vilar de Perdizes, which has been held since 1983 and attracts healers, wizards, psychics and fortune tellers, as well as Friday the 13th in Montalegre.

21/04/2020

The Parthenon
A former temple on the Athenian Acropolis,dedicated to the goddess Athena.
The construction began in 447 BC and completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC.
The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, Athenian democracy and Western civilization, and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments.
To the Athenians who built it, the Parthenon and other Periclean monuments of the Acropolis were seen fundamentally as a celebration of Hellenic victory over the Persian invaders and as a thanksgiving to the gods for that victory.
The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.
In the final decade of the 6th century AD, the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
After the Ottoman conquest, it was turned into a mosque in the early 1460s.
On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment during a siege of the Acropolis.
The resulting explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures.
From 1800 to 1803, Thomas Bruce, removed some of the surviving sculptures, now known as the Elgin Marbles, with the alleged permission of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire.
Since 1975 numerous large-scale restoration projects have been undertaken; the latest is expected to finish in 2020.
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@ Acropolis of Athens