For some unknown reason it's a date that is not overly celebrated in Portugal.
It's now been just over 4 years since I left Portugal and immigrated to Australia and although I do love living here I miss the charm of the old country a little bit, Australia's history is so recent compared with European history...
So I leave you with a few photos of Lisbon's old and historical buildings.
Happy Birthday Portugal.
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| Mosteiro dos Jeronimos - Jeronimos Monastery, Belem |
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| Praca do Comercio - Commerce Square |
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| Torre de Belem - Belem Tower |
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| Old Lisbon suburb in one of the seven hills surrounding Lisbon |
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| Elevador da Bica - Funicular in one of the suburbs |
So glad to see you also celebrate our independence day! I do it since I have my blog! We are the oldest European nation and that deserves always a celebration! :-) Yesterday, I published also some photos I took in Lisbon last September when I was there. Our capital is so lovely and beauiful! The most beautiful! My heart talking :-)))
ReplyDeleteBeijinhos!!
Sim aproveitei para por algumas fotos,mas apercebi-me q nao tenho muitas digitais tenho q fazer o scan delas. Lisboa tem o seu charme e maravilhosos monumentos.
ReplyDeleteLindas fotos da minha cidade! :-)
ReplyDeleteObrigada pela visita JM
ReplyDeleteThere's a clear reason to not celebrate Zamora as the "independence day" since Portugal can choose many other dates and there's still no real consensus regarding this issue, and probably never will be.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all even Zamora cannot be considered a "signed peace treaty" since the text doesn't even exist and the "conference between parts" is only known by secondary sources.
In the past 200 years, many people interpreted Zamora in different ways, and indeed a "signed peace treaty" was one of them but today Zamora's importance it's considered just another step in the ladder of the process of independence.
For instance, just a couple of months after Zamora, D. Afonso Henriques clearly broke the "supposed rules" of the Conference of Zamora.
Things in Middle Ages were different from our time, and this struggle was complex and did have many different players.
There's no ultimate reason to celebrate Zamora as "de facto" or "de jure" Portugal's day of independence. There are other texts (that still exist today) which have the same weight in this long term process. It's far more important the whole vision of it than the particular vision regarding only one text.
Celebrating Zamora may be considered just an anti-Republic propaganda, since the conference was in 4th-5th October 1143 and the Republic was declared in 5th October 1910 or just typical anti-Castilian propaganda and well utilized by the late dictatorship.
Oh, by the way, i forgot: you clearly don't understand Lisbon, sorry. There's no suburbs inside the city.
ReplyDeleteThat pictures are from the historical centre of the city, not "suburbs". That doesn't make any sense.