Literary Journey
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Mixed
easy
60.00 km
12.00h
Stops in The Literary Douro
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Going to Foz with Ramalho Ortigão
The Foz do Douro that Ramalho Ortigão knew in his childhood, in the 1840s and 1850s, was still a modest …
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Caldas de Vizela and Thermal Tourism
When Ramalho Ortigão arrived at Caldas de Vizela eighteen years earlier, in early June in the mid-nineteenth century, he did …
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São Pedro do Sul: The Paradisiacal Valley in Ramalho's Journey
When Ramalho Ortigão arrived in São Pedro do Sul, still in the late nineteenth century, he did so after an …
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Azambuja: The Landscape of Ribatejo
When Ramalho Ortigão crosses Azambuja in the late nineteenth century, he finds a Ribatejo landscape in full threshing season: "in …
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Caldas da Rainha: The Beautiful Village
In the late nineteenth century, Caldas da Rainha presented itself as "the beautiful town" that in Portugal "most resembles the …
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Ericeira by the Sea
When Ramalho Ortigão visits Ericeira outside the bathing season, in the late nineteenth century, he finds a town that surprises …
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The example of the Elvas Aqueduct
When Ramalho Ortigão contemplates the Elvas Aqueduct in the late nineteenth century, he sees much more than a hydraulic engineering …
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The Tower of the Gourds - Chronicle of a Survival
In 1785, when Queen Maria I announced her visit to Santarém, the Scalabitan councilors faced a problem of geometry and …
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Ramalho Ortigão: A Heritage Vocation
José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão was born on November 24, 1836, in the house of Germalde, in the parish of Santo …
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Ramalho Ortigão and the Cult of Art in Portugal
Ramalho Ortigão wrote in the late nineteenth century, at a time when Portugal had lost its empire, suffered the trauma …
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Ramalho Ortigão's Manueline: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Transgression
When Ramalho Ortigão affirms that the Tomar window is "the most eloquent, most convinced, most poetically patriotic, most tremblingly Portuguese …
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The Tomar Window Under Ramalho Ortigão's Magnifying Glass
The famous window of the Chapter Room opens in the eastern façade of the Convent of Christ, facing east, in …
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Legacy and Contemporary of Ramalho's Thought
When The Cult of Art in Portugal was published in 1896, it had all the characteristics of being just another …
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The Unfinished Chapels: An Incomplete Poem in Stone
If the Batalha Monastery was, for Ramalho Ortigão, "the great marble book, the immortal poem, the Portuguese Divine Comedy," then …
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Ramalho's Heritage Pedagogy
But the most original—and perhaps most current—aspect of Ramalho Ortigão's thought resided in his pedagogical conception of heritage. For him, …
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Ramalho and the Batalha Monastery as a Case Study
Half a century after King Ferdinand II's visit, Ramalho Ortigão found himself before the same monument, but at an even …
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The Metaphor of Threatened Heritage
The contrast was devastating. On one side, the glory of the foundation: a victorious king, the greatest architects of Europe …
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The Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória: Historical and Symbolic Context
Among all Portuguese monuments, the Batalha Monastery occupied, for Ramalho Ortigão, a singular and almost sacred place.
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Cloisters of Celas Convent
When Ramalho Ortigão visited the Convent of Celas in the late 19th century, the small Cistercian monastery founded by D. …
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A Journey on the Tagus
When the steamer departs from Cais do Sodré toward Cascais on a September morning in 1876, the Tagus stretches before …
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Raul Brandão: The Visionary of Foz
<p>On the modest Rua da Bela Vista, next to the Atlantic that bathes Foz do Douro, a boy was born …
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Ramalho Ortigão: A Life Between Letters and Travel
<p>When José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão died in 1915, at the age of 79, the journey of one of the most …
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Largo dos Jerónimos
<p>When Ramalho Ortigão writes about the Jerónimos at the end of the nineteenth century, the monument faces a crucial question: …
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Eça de Queirós: The Diplomat
<p>On August 16, 1900, in a Parisian residence, José Maria Eça de Queirós expired, leaving unfinished a literary revolution that …
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Ramalho Ortigão: A Defender of Porto's Heritage
Between medieval Porto and the cosmopolitan Porto of the late 19th century unfolded a tension that Ramalho Ortigão witnessed with …
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Ramalho Ortigão: Porto as Memory and Art
<p>As we traverse the vast gallery of paintings that Ramalho Ortigão created of nineteenth-century Porto, one conclusion imposes itself: the …
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Ramalho Ortigão: Portraits of Porto Society
<p>Porto society in the second half of the nineteenth century presented itself to Ramalho Ortigão's eyes as a deeply contradictory …
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Herculano and Portuguese History
<p>When Alexandre Herculano's mortal remains were solemnly transferred to the Jerónimos Monastery in 1888, eleven years after his death, Portugal …
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Ramalho Ortigão: the writer of Porto
<p>José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão was born in Porto on 24 November 1836, in a house on Rua de Germalde, in …