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Portugal Day 2021

Thursday, June 10, 2021
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Portugal’s national day commemorates the death of national poet Luís de Camões on June 10, 1499.

Portuguese NYC Archive

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.

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.

Portugal

Luís de Camões

Thursday, June 10, 2021
LISBON, PORTUGAL
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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.

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