FADO - Portuguese Traditional Music

One of our treasures it´s our traditional musics like FADO, one of them. By all country we can hear someone singing Fado. Many are professional other's don't but what is important is the feeling.

Fado as the word indicates is destiny in english and also for us it's the same, we use an expression that is: our life is a "FADO" ( destiny).

Through all this years was "seen" as a sad song usually about tragedy or even death, nowadays are coming up new ways of sing FADO, a new generation are discovering new ritms and other themes, with it they are getting new people hearing them.

Appeared around the 2nd part of century XIX, and we have two different styles of Fado here :
Fado of coimbra and Fado of Lisboa.

In Lisboa we find the traditional one, if you visit Lisboa you can't avoid to listen a Fado's night in small Restaurant's in city there are many.


In Coimbra is more refined, city of students many of them (veterans) sing Fado .

Fado doesn't exist without portuguese guitar, this picture show us one of the bestguitarrists: António Chainho.



Unforgetable is our Amália Rodrigues the most important figure in Fado development.

Try to hear some Fado and express your opinion, I'm waiting

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National Anthem - A PORTUGUESA

Hello my friends, today I let you know about our National Anthem, wrote by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça.


On 1910 Portuguese Republic replaced the Constitutional Monarchy.

You can listen the music

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I hope you enjoy it

Bye

	Approximate translation
First stanza (Portuguese National Anthem)
Heróis do mar, nobre povo, Nação valente, imortal, Levantai hoje de novo O esplendor de Portugal! Entre as brumas da memória, Ó Pátria, sente-se a voz Dos teus egrégios avós, Que há-de guiar-te à vitória!	Heroes of the sea, noble people, Brave and immortal nation, Give rise today, once more To the splendour of Portugal! Amidst the mists of memory, Oh Fatherland, the voice is felt Of your noble forefathers, That shall lead you to victory!
Chorus
Às armas, às armas! Sobre a terra, sobre o mar, Às armas, às armas! Pela Pátria lutar! Contra os canhões marchar, marchar!(*)	To arms, to arms! Over the land, over the sea, To arms, to arms! To fight for the Fatherland! Against the cannons, we march, we march!(*)
Second stanza
Desfralda a invicta Bandeira, À luz viva do teu céu! Brade a Europa à terra inteira: Portugal não pereceu Beija o solo teu jucundo O Oceano, a rugir d'amor, E teu braço vencedor Deu mundos novos ao Mundo!	Hoist the unconquerable Flag, In the living light of your sky! Europe cries out to the world entire: Portugal has not perished Kiss the soil jolly of yours The Ocean, roaring of love, And your winning arm Gave new worlds to the World!
Chorus
Third stanza
Saudai o Sol que desponta Sobre um ridente porvir; Seja o eco de uma afronta O sinal do ressurgir. Raios dessa aurora forte São como beijos de mãe, Que nos guardam, nos sustêm, Contra as injúrias da sorte.	Salute the Sun that rises Over a smiling future; Let the echo of an offense Be the sign for resurrection. Rays of that strong dawn Are as mother kisses, That keep us, sustain us, Against the injuries of fate.

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"Pauliteiros de Miranda"

A group of men typical dressed and with small wood sticks, dance an oldest tradition from Miranda ( northeast of Portugal)





Only composed by men ( 8), this group dance beating the wood sticks against the other ones.









this dance is representative of historical moments

Several groups present their dances and songs.


As you know there are portuguese emigrants arround the world and this groups carry on this traditions to them and for a while homesickness are forgotten.





See you soon....

NAZARÉ ( Beach of Nazaré)

Situated in the center of Portugal, in the coast west we have fantastic beaches with clean sands but the water is very cold.




Nazaré , founded arroud 1514, has a legend that on 1182 D. Fuas Roupinho was hunting mounted on it's horse, so involved was with a deer that he didn't noticed he was almost fall for the mountain below.

Happily Nossa traditions, festivities and typical food ( Sardines).

NSenhora da Nazaré ( Catholic Saint) appeared and stopped his horse and saved them of deadth. Later a chapel was raised and it's on the rock the place where the horse stopped.

Nazaré is visited by people from all Portugal and foreigns. Had to it's azaré is divided in two parts, the beach and it's narrow streets, in low, but going up by an elevator or by car you can visit "sítio da Nazaré" and appreciate a fantastic sight of the beach.

















To finish I leave a curiosity, knew traditionally dressed women use 7 skirts ??

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Where to camp in Portugal ( beach or the field?)

Spring time allows us to think about camping and we have the ideal places to make it come true.
Arrange a tent and the necessary equipment and goes to camp. From North to south we've got many camping parks, with all good conditions , there's many ways of camp, with a tent or caravanism or even in a bungalow.



And I bet if you look well and decide spent a few days in the interior of Portugal you won't be disappointed instead of Algarve full of people and confusion.



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Education and technologies

Hi people who read all this and travel under this lines knowing a little more about us. Can i still surprise you?? I don´t know but i'll try.

Let's make a stop on this course and find out what's going on with our education and school problems. Before Easter hollidays there was a situation in a classroom between a teacher and a student and all this caused by a mobile phone, allowed in classroom by this teacher, when suddenly they began fighting, teacher wants to take the mobile phone from a student, of course this "movie" was taped by other student and everyone could watch it on youtube.

And about 15 days was currently subject for newspapers and TV, and the result was: 2 students had been transferred to another school and teacher is at home incapable to came back to school. NowI ask are these new technologies, like mobile phones, computers, psp, nintendo's.... changing our behaviour in their function? Visit http://www.chadwsmith.com/
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Resuming

I'm sorry to left my last themes unfinished, but was late and i was out of time. After present you my excuses, i'm ready to tell you more about this country full of sun( or may be not), these last few days our temperatures were 30º but today ( saturday) weather changed and it will may rain tomorrow, we use an afirmation ( it's weekend) because there are always changes on rest days.

I told you some of the most important traditions and delicious gastronomic plates, than i show about algarve, you might know it, it's the most visited beaches from foreign tourists.

Than I brought Marinha Grande to my Blog, and their great glass art. Situated in Center of Portugal near Nazaré , São Pedro de Moel and Vieira de Leiria, three pleasant beaches, belows at Leiria District.

why glass?? On 1758, was founded the 1st glass company, as you might know glass is made from a thin sand mixed with other components involved in high temperatures, and to get firewood to ovens feed, they had an advantage here, Marinha Grande was surrounded by forests.

On this years technics were developed and machines were invented to replace manual work, and Marinha Grande lives nowadays a problem of unemployment.















This picture shows Glass museum













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