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Portugal has two time zones and observes daylight saving time. Continental Portugal and Madeira use UTC+00:00, while the Azores use UTC–01:00. Daylight saving time (locally known as Hora de Verão, meaning "summer time") is observed nationwide from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, when continental Portugal and Madeira ...
38°46′34″N 9°07′33″W. / 38.77598°N 9.12577°W / 38.77598; -9.12577. Parent organisations. Ministry of the Sea. The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera ( lit. 'Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere'; abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal .
Temperature Location Date Recorded −16.0 °C (3.2 °F) Penhas da Saúde: 5 February 1954 −16.0 °C (3.2 °F) Miranda do Douro: 6 January 1945
This is the list of best-selling albums in Portugal. Album Artist Released Sales ... Tempo: Pedro Abrunhosa: 1996 180,000 ... Fado em Mim: Mariza: 2002 120,000 6× ...
Normals. Porto has generally moderate temperatures. The average annual high is around 20 °C (68 °F) and average low around 11 °C (52 °F). The climate is also only mildly seasonal, from a maxima of 14 °C (57 °F) in January to 25–26 °C (77–79 °F) in August, while minima is around 5–6 °C (41–43 °F) in January and 15–16 °C (59 ...
The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...
Estado Novo (Portugal) The Estado Novo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈtaðu ˈnovu], lit.'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship") formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the unstable First Republic. Together, the Ditadura Nacional and ...
Eight locations have been always considered cities since Portugal became an independent kingdom ( de facto 1128): Braga, Coimbra, Lamego, Porto and Viseu, as well as Évora, Lisbon and Silves, which were annexed at a later date. Guarda was the first city proclaimed as part of the independent kingdom, in 1199.