MENSAGEM de Fernando Pessoa - Noite Read more →

Who knew love in Portugal better than Luís Vaz de Camões? Read more →

The city and the Mountains Read more →

Pessoa wrote under many different heteronyms--characters he created. At least 72 of them are known and the most common is Alberto Caeiro, a shepherd; Ricardo Reis, a man of letters; and Álvaro de Campos, a free spirit. Read more →

José Saramago (1922-2010) was the first Portuguese recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1998, and he has introduced Portuguese writing to readers across the world. He blends fact and fiction to create surrealistic reflections on life Read more →

I am nothing I shall never be anything I cannot want to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world. Read more →

Born in 1525, Camões died in obscurity in 1580. The day he died is Portugal's national day. But many facts of his life are missing. Read more →

This is the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Jesuit poet, António Vieira (1608 - 1697). Vieira is credited for taking the myth of a dead king and giving it new life. He wrote of a new millennium in which Portugal's lost king would return to the world. For... Read more →

Alexandre Herculano, (1810-1877) introduced the historic novel to Portugal His remains lie in a majestic tomb in the Jerónimos Monastery at Belém, near Lisbon. Read more →

At various times called Crow, Cormorant, Marco, Statue, Lighthouse, St. Thomas or Black Island, it is the smallest island in the Azorean archipelago and the last to be settled. It is 4 miles long and 2.5 miles wide, harboring a community of just over 400 souls. "But we have more than a thousand head of cattle," says the van driver who awaits us at the pier. Read more →