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Portuguese NYC
Portugal Day Festival and Portugal Day Parade in Newark, NJ
STREET FAIR Sat-Sun, Jun 8-9
PARADE Sun, Jun 9, 2019
NEWARK, New Jersey | Metro NYC’s big Portuguese celebration
Portuguese New York City
There is a Portuguese community in Astoria, Queens, but the big one is in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey.
NY Fado Festival, the past, present, and future of Portuguese Fado
At Sport Club Portugues in Newark, NJ, Schimmel Center in the Financial District, and Joe’s Pub in the East Village, Feb 24-26, 2017
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Portuguese Culture
Portugal is a seafaring nation. Fado is the music of “saudade”, the terrible longing that sailors and their loved ones feel when they are far away from each other. Portuguese speakers say the full meaning of the word cannot be translated, but if you are far from home, you know what it means. Fado is medicine for saudade.
Saint Anthony of Padua
Friday, June 13, 2020
The patron saint of Lisbon, Portugal; Padua, Italy; and lost things, also helps couples reconcile
Saint John’s Eve or Festa Junina
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Puerto Rico, New Orleans
Celebrate midsummer (or midwinter) by gathering with family around bonfires on the eve of Saint John the Baptist’s birth
National Sangria Day
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Red wine with fresh fruit is a popular Spanish and Portuguese summer drink
FIFA World Soccer Rankings
December 19, 2019
USA women are #1. 70% of the top ten men’s teams are Latin: France, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Argentina and Colombia
Portugal
Our Lady of Fátima
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
FÁTIMA, Portugal
Three peasant children first saw a Marion apparition on May 13, 1917 that later led to a miracle witnessed by thousands
Luís de Camões
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
LISBON, PORTUGAL
The Portuguese Shakespeare, author of Portugal’s national epic poem “Os Lusíadas” about Vasco de Gama’s sea route to India, died on June 10, 1580
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
Sunday, August 23, 2020
The more you think about it, the more you wonder how the Atlantic slave trade was allowed to happen, and why we haven’t gotten over it
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Portugal Restoration of Independence Day ~ Guerra da Restauração
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
LISBON, Portugal, ~ Nobles and merchants stage a coup against Spanish Hapsburg rule that begins the Portuguese Restoration War on December 1, 1640
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