Freedom, people`s liberty and the defense of popular power are values ​​"impossible to hide" in the work and the personal life of José Afonso, said Francisco Fanhais, the president of José Afonso Association to Lusa agency. The artist defended "ideas that are extremely noble like freedom and democracy" said the musician and promoter Manuel Jorge Veloso, a trusted friend of José Afonso, who accompanied him. José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos was born in Aveiro, on August...

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The city of Porto, a beautiful baroque town, capital of Northern Portugal, overlooking the Douro river is considered one of the "Best Tourist Destinations in Europe of 2017". Porto has been hosting one of the most prestigious European (if not global) film festivals for 37 years. There are 10 days of celebration for the world of cinema, in which producers, directors, actors, distributors and (a whole lot) of spectators meld in a multifaceted program with...

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History of Portuguese Culture in Modern Times by José  Eduardo Franco PREFACE “The historian is a manipulator of time. He locks time in a field, or a castle made of words (...). A manipulator of time in the sense that he intervenes even when he does not want to intervene, conditioned to some form of conception of present and future, he is still (...) a man of his trade, a man of his trade, a...

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