Friday, August 31, 2018

Can You Find Portugal on a Map?





Click or tap on Portugal.
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Portugal, located in Southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula, has a population of about 10.8 million people.
86% of readers answered this correctly.
Music
, the Portuguese tradition of elegant, emotive songs filled with tragedy and longing, entwines Portuguese song with tinges of Arabic music and echoes of the Portuguese empire returning to that port city: from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde and perhaps Macao.
Fado
Salsa
Samba
Tango
Geography
Everything old is new again in the Portuguese capital, . Throughout the hilly metropolis on the Tagus River, fading structures and spaces are being stylishly reborn. Once-forlorn neighborhood markets have undergone ambitious renovations and currently form the city’s newest hot spots for dining and drinking.
Barcelona
Lisbon
Madrid
São Paulo
In Portugal’s second most populous city, medieval townhouses stack up beside the Douro River like Legos, and churches wear their blue-and-white azulejo tiles outside as well as in. Settled by the Romans, and famous for its port wines, which became a favored export to England,  was a lucky beneficiary of its country’s vast, centuries-spanning empire. Its riverside location made it an important industrial center in the 1700s and 1800s.
Bordeaux
Champagne
El Puerto de Santa María
Porto
Sports
, born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira, began his senior club career playing for Sporting Lisbon - at the age of 12. He would go on to become one of the finest players in history, a three-time winner of the World Player of the Year Award, a three-time winner of the Champions League, a champion of Europe with Portugal and, for a while, the world’s most expensive player.
Diego Maradona
Lionel Messi
Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Cristiano Ronaldo

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