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A magnificent bridge, beautiful buildings and a monstrous local sandwich are just some of what Porto has to offer visitors.
Metamorphosed by its colonial riches, Portugal developed a distinctive Baroque style in the 18th century. Gilded altarpieces, ...
Early immigrant Portuguese Joe ran a saloon in Gastown and married the granddaughter of famous chief Kiapilano. The first European to live in Stanley Park was not English. He was not Irish, nor ...
The great and the good were once lured to these dead five-stars, but now they are eerily derelict – though some could yet be reborn ...
Composer of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi was little more than a footnote for 200 years after his death, until a 20th-century innovation restored his worldwide fame. Minister of musicAn anonymous ...
The Baroque-style interiors are as grand as you ... Fort Aguada was once a strategic defence post for the Portuguese. Built in 1612, it still looks pretty solid — proof of its solid construction ...
This monumental church, renowned for its Portuguese Baroque-style architecture, has been prominently featured in several Bollywood films, including ‘Josh’, ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’ and ‘Aashiqui 2 ...
BELOIT — The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble will be featured in the next Musica Maxima concert set for 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27 at First Congregational Church, 801 Bushnell St. Members of the ...
You’ll also hear a buoyant double trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, and a charming bouquet of Scottish spring flowers. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
Designed as an intellectual manifesto, it embodies the height of Portuguese Baroque refinement: perfect proportions, precious materials, and softly filtered light. Exotic wood from Brazil ...