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2 unusual facts about Cascais


Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Jacek Krenz

OUVINDO CHOPIN - 3 editions in Portugal: Casa Santa Maria, Cascais, Galeria Municipal do Palácio Ribamar, Lisbon, Espaço Cultural do Chiado da Fundação Sousa Pedro.


Afonso Taira

Afonso Miguel Castro Vilhena Taira (born 17 June 1992 in Cascais, Lisbon) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Atlético Clube de Portugal on loan from Córdoba CF in Spain, as a defensive midfielder.

António da Mota Veiga

António Jorge Martins da Mota Veiga (Cascais, 28 February 1915 – Lisbon, CUF Hospital, 14 November 2005) was a Portuguese politician and former Minister and law professor.

Helena Sá e Costa

She taught in the Lisbon and Porto conservatories, and gained international recognition as an outstanding teacher, leading to invitations to oversee courses in Cascais, Espinho, Estoril, Salzburg (Austria), Gunsbach (Albert Schweitzer Centre, in Alsace, France), Switzerland, Italy, England, Germany, Canada and America.

Neo-Manueline

Other important Neo-Manueline buildings, in Portugal, are Rossio Railway Station, Lisbon (1886–1890), Palace Hotel of Bussaco (1888–1907), the Sintra Town Hall (1906–1909), the Counts of Castro Guimarães Palace in Cascais (1900) and the Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra (1904–1910).

Nuno Durão

He spent most of his playing career, starting aged 14, at Cascais, winning several National Championship and Cup of Portugal titles.

Vera Kolodzig

Kolodzig, whose father is German, lived in Cascais until she was 18 and then went to London to study contemporary theatre at the University of Essex.


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