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Alentejo
This region of Portugal is particularly popular with visitors for its many vestiges of different eras and cultural influences, as well as its vast plains and olive groves. In the Alentejo region, ...
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Freixo de Espada-a-Cinta
Freixo de Espada-a-Cinta is a small town in northeast Portugal, on the Spanish border. A medieval town built in a complex natural environment, Freixo is best known for its 14th-century tower. The ...
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Municipal Library of Evora
Largo do Conde de Vila Flor 4, 7000-863 Évora Tel : + 351 266 769 330 Início (bnportugal.gov.pt)
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Praça do Giraldo
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Portas do Sol
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Evora
The city is best known for its historic centre, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Jewish presence is thought to go back a long way, with Evora boasting one of the largest Portuguese ...
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Covilha
Covilha is a town known as an important urban centre in the Portuguese interior. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 12th century. There were three successive Jewish quarters in the ...
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Coimbra
The city of Coimbra is famous for its historic sites and the first Portuguese university founded there in 1290. It was also an important centre of Portuguese Judaism until the Inquisition. During ...
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Castelo Branco
Castelo Branco is known, as the first part of its name suggests, for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 14th century. An organised Jewish community existed in ...
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Beja
Beja is a town in southern Portugal, famous for the battles that have been fought there since the time of Julius Caesar. It was also known as one of the places where rabbinical institutions were ...
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Almeida
A crossroads of exoduses, the town of Almeida, which brings together several former small medieval municipalities, has welcomed many refugees throughout its history. This was also the case during ...
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Sha’ar HaShamaim Synagogue
R. do Brum 16, 9500-085 Ponta Delgada Tel : +351 508 646 0650 https://www.azoreansynagogue.org
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Holocaust Museum of Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre 790, 4150-171 Porto Museu | Museu do Holocausto do Porto | Porto (mhporto.com)
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Jewish Museum of Porto
R. de Guerra Junqueiro 325, 4150-389 Porto Início | Museu Judaico do Porto (mjporto.com)
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Rua dos Gatos
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Thessaloniki, “Jerusalem of the Balkans”, 1870-1920. The Pierre de Girord donation
Until 21 April 2024 at the mahJ Thanks to Pierre de Girord’s donation of 400 photographs and documents to the mahJ, visitors will be able to appreciate the fascinating Jewish history of ...
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Exhibition “Sacred Kings! David & Salomon through the ages”
Until 13 December 2023 at the National University Library in Strasbourg David the warrior king and Solomon the man who built the Temple in Jerusalem. How have these two great kings of Israel, key ...
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Exhibition “Chagall and me! 50 years of the Musée Chagall – part 2”
Until 8 January 2024 at the Chagall Museum This three-part exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Musée Chagall, created on the artist’s birthday, 7 July 1973, when it hosted the ...
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“Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah” exhibition
From 1 December 2023 to 25 February 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de la Haute Garonne Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible ...