Inês de Castro: Portugal’s Posthumous Queen
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2024
In European history, few love stories are as poignant and politically charged as that of Inês de Castro and King Pedro I of Portugal. Their ...
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The Portuguese Bank Note Scandal of 1925
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2023
Throughout the annals of history there have been individuals who have sought to deceive others by producing counterfeit versions of precious...
The Bat Libraries of Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2022
Bibliophiles aren’t the only ones that love hanging out in the library. Given the chance bats too would love to roost there and eat the bugs...
Hostile Façades
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2020
The old city of Segovia, about 90 km north of Madrid, is best known for its aqueduct , but this historic city is full of architectural curio...
Dürer's Rhinoceros: A 16th-Century Viral Fake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2020
Five hundred years ago, Europe saw its first rhinoceros in more than a thousand years. The animal was fairly common during Roman times see...
Peter's Café Sport: The Post Office in The Middle of The Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2020
The Azores in the North Atlantic is one of the most remote archipelago in the world. Situated about 1,500 km from the west coast of Portugal...
The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2019
One of Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries is a shipwreck known as the “Mahogany Ship”. It was first spotted in 1836 by a party...
The Filipino Hero Who Killed Ferdinand Magellan
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2019
Ferdinand Magellan is remembered in the west as the intrepid Portuguese explorer who led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, but f...
The Rocks That Give Birth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2018
In the Freita mountain range in northern Portugal, close to a village called Castanheira, is a huge block of granite that periodically eject...
Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
Vilarinho da Furna, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district, in northern Portugal, was an old village that was erased f...
