Overseas Portugal in pictures and videos/O Portugal ultramarino em fotografias e vídeos

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TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER MACAU/TRANSFERÊNCIA DA SOBERANIA DE MACAU

The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20 December 1999. Macau was settled and governed by Portuguese merchants in 1535, during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD). Portugal's involvement in the region was formally recognized by the Qing in 1749. The Portuguese governor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, emboldened by the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking, attempted to annex the territory, expelling Qing authorities in 1846, but was assassinated. After the Second Opium War, the Portuguese government, along with a British representative, signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking that gave Portugal sovereignty over Macau, on the condition that Portugal would cooperate in efforts to end the smuggling of opium.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transf...nty_over_Macau

The last Portuguese Governor of Macau (1991-1999)
Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira


More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_...m_Rocha_Vieira

Transfer of sovereignty ceremonies on video

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Goa, which was and still is the wealthiest state of India in GDP PP.
https://statisticstimes.com/economy/...per-capita.php

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Sara Pinto is developing a very interesting work in Goa: the role of the Misericórdias (Holy Houses - related to charity) in Goa, India from its financial point of view. Discover her work here.

@2:05 you see the extension of the Portuguese Empire and its Holy Houses.

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With a unique cultural heritage originating from the Portuguese colonization in the 16th Century, Macanese cuisine is amongst the first fusion food in the world. Located just 64km from Hong Kong, Macau is a food lover’s haven. Dishes are past down through the generations, and combine local produce with Chinese and European cooking techniques.
Chef Florita Alves and School of Wok Founder Jeremy Pang discusses the history of Macanese cuisine.



Meet Sandra Barros, she is a Chef from Macao passionate with making Macanese fusion food.

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CATHEDRAL OF PORTUGUESE CULTURE in Brazil attracts tourists from all over the world!

The stones of this building are stanzas of Lusíadas" quote by Brazilian author Joaquim Nabuco at the inauguration of this precious building that represents so much Portuguese culture and Lusophony.

"Because of its prestige in intellectual circles, the architectural beauty of its headquarters building, the importance of the bibliographic collection and the activities it carries out, the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura is, in all respects, a remarkable institution that greatly dignifies Portugal. in Brazil.
On May 14, 1837, a group of 43 Portuguese emigrants from Rio de Janeiro - and it should be noted that this only occurs 15 years after the country's independence - met at the house of Dr. António José Coelho Lousada, in the former Rua Direita (today Rua Primeiro de Março), nº 20, and decided to create a library to expand the knowledge of its members and give the Portuguese living in the then capital of the Empire the opportunity to illustrate their spirit.
Among these men, most of whom were merchants from the square, were some who had been persecuted in Portugal by absolutism and who had emigrated to Brazil. This was the case of José Marcelino Rocha Cabral, lawyer and journalist, who was to be elected first president of the institution.
It is possible that the founders of the “Cabinet” were inspired by the example coming from France, when they were concerned with the level of education of their compatriots and by wanting to instill in many people a taste for reading, where, soon after the revolution of 1789, the so-called “boutiques à lire” began to appear (...)
And the commemorations of the tercentenary of the death of Camões (1880) will be the great pretext to motivate the Portuguese “colony” and carry out the project. (...)
The project chosen was that of the Portuguese architect Rafael da Silva Castro, with his neo-Manueline style evoking the Camonian epic.
Ramalho Ortigão, invited to be the official speaker at the ceremony, then gave a remarkable speech. At one point he said: "On the day when European preponderance falls into the intellectual domination of the world - because there are no eternal preponderances and the movement of civilization is destined to oscillate like the movement of the seas and the configuration of continents between the two hemispheres of the land - when, through this evolution, the importance of the geographical domain of the current lines has shifted, if this house still exists, it will show our grandchildren that working men, alien to the country's political intrigue and the dispute of power, absent from their homeland, in a remote country, foresaw in the mission of their race the reach of science and the reach of art, which, with the aim of safeguarding the interests of intelligence, making them prevail over the interests of greed, ambition and human selfishness. , is the origin of positive morality as well as the basis of common sense and the mainstay of moderation..." And further on the writer ended his speech: "And if one day the name of Portugal disappearing from the political charter of Europe, this House will still be like the monumental expression of the fulfillment of the prophecy put by Garrett in the mouth of Camões: ... the language, the Portuguese name on earth, does not end”.
In 1900, the Portuguese Reading Office becomes a public library - anyone from the people can have access to the books in its library. And soon after, Benjamin Franklin de Ramiz Galvão, one of the most illustrious Brazilian intellectuals, is invited by the President of the institution, Ernesto Cibrão, to organize a new catalog of the bibliographic collection, a task that will end in 1906. It is precisely in that year that King D Carlos attributes the title of “Royal” to the Cabinet and a large exhibition of paintings by José Malhôa takes place in the Salão dos Brasões, whose inauguration is attended by President Rodrigues Alves. On the first day of the exhibition, of the 125 paintings presented, 26 were sold, and one of them, called “The Dream of the Infante”, was acquired to stay in the Real Gabinete. The same exhibition also features portraits of the king and queen D. Amélia, commissioned from the painter by the board of the Royal and Benevolent Sociedade Portuguesa Caixa de Socorros D. Pedro V, which are still in its headquarters today.

And then there was a reference to what the country owed to the Portuguese in Brazil. In the cities, whose best palaces do they belong? Who ordered to build houses and pay for improvements? Who owns the manufacturing establishments? Who orders to open and reform the roads in the provinces? Who pays for church improvements, vestments and implements? Who orders the construction of asylums, hospitals and schools? Who underwrites the shares of the railways? Who responds to the needs of the State and buys half of the public debt bonds in circulation? Who?

The grievances and resentments of the colony were registered, in part due to the clashes that at the time divided the country provoked by the growing campaign of the Republican Party and the convulsions of the Monarchy (...)

A. Gomes da Costa

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Portuguese Fado Music & Wine among Mansions [4K] Walking Macau Rua de Hac Sá Long Chao Kok 黑沙龍爪角海濱路

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#Macau #Portugal #China #Lusofonia
Portugal in Macau's Lusofonia Festival [4K] Music, Food, and Dance
December 2021

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Conversa com um macaense sobre a sua vida em Macau, o patuá e a música macaense.

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Muscat, capital of Oman, was conquered by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507, and the Portuguese managed to maintain the square of arms until 1653. We know that the fortifications were improved in 1522, and greatly altered with a plan designed by Inôfre de Carvalho, in the years 1559 and 1560.
The defense plan was very complex, but what you can still see in Muscat today, the so-called fortresses of Jalali and Marini, one on each side of the entrance to the bay, correspond to the works carried out by the Portuguese.

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Luanda, Angola: monumento ao explorador português Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510 – 1589), fundador de São Paulo de Loanda (Luanda) - Novais foi um fidalgo da Casa Real, e o primeiro Capitão-Governador da Angola portuguesa. Era neto do explorador Bartolomeu Dias - Largo do Atlético, Rua Conde Cunha