Perhaps not so much anymore, but the fisherman has been for generations the symbol of Portugal's identity as seafaring nation.
none better than in my town...Povoa de Varzim...well, technically speaking, Aguçadoura...but part of Povoa de Varzim conselho. We are known as the great fisherman town in Portugal.
Maybe in the North , but in the Lisbon area , Peniche, Sezimbra, and Nazare are the towns that come to mind.
I was just reading through and this caught my eye. Coimbra didn't even exist during the Roman times , the nearby city was the Roman city of Conimbriga.
Its when Quaresma is running towards the sideline, he has a defender coming at him on an angle. The pull is passes towards Quaresma with pass adjacent to the sideline. The defender that was approaching him on the angle gets to him, Quaresma steps on the ball then with the opposite foot kicks in threw his oppenents legs without losing pace. He then deliver a cross to Almeida with his right foot for a goal. Its at the 2:22 mark in the video.
Conimbriga, modern day Coimbra is a Celtic-Gallic city which has been in existence for much longer than any thing called the Roman Empire. There's a tendency to rebadge anything from the Lusitanian peninsula as Roman but that's just part of the Asiatic propaganda which the Spaniards - a mixed Latino people foreign to the peninsula, subscribe to and try to propagate. Another example are the bridges of Lusitania, all the bridges are of Gallic construction but they just get incorrectly relabled as Roman by simple minded people. The same thing applies to our Celtic based language, religion and traditions. The truth is that the Romans were defeated by Viriato from entering the western side of the Lusitanian peninsula. Roman influence was largely contained to the eastern seaboard in what is now modern Spain. Hence why the Eastern Spaniards are Latinos and not Gallic Lusitanos like us.
Just two points : 1. The history lesson I learned was that Viriato was assassinated by Roman paid lieutenants. Roman dominance in the peninsula florished after that unabated. 2. The Romans invented the techniques for stone bridges that is commonly known as Roman style and that entails the shape of the stone having a non-perfect cube with the large part on the top and the lower part on the bottom. By placing these stones side by side, you end up with an arc without any other support.
Actually, the only thing I'm pushing is the notion you're not worth the words you're posting. You've been seen through and ,frankly, you getting to be boring.
The Roman influence was in modern day Eastern Spain and non-existant on our side of the peninsula. The fact is that stories were invented about Viriato so as to avoid making the Romans look bad in what was a complete defeat of their armies on Luistanian soil. Interestingly enough, the reason the modern day calendar starts in the month of January is because the Romans needed to start their campaigns earlier in order to have more time and any chance of defeating my Lusitanian ancestors. Even with the extra two months the Romans still failed and were completely defeated. In ancient times, the first month of the calendar year was March. The Romans only managed to occupy the eastearn sea board in modern day Spain.
wow, pretty soon he is gonna say the Roman Empire actually was the Portugalian-celtic-gallic-insert bullshit here empire that was renamed not to make the Romans look bad. In addition to arcs and bridges We also invented the aquaduct and we also built Rome in a day So Sad.
Ora cá está ele outra vez! O génio que diz que o D. Afonso Henriques não era Português (epá não se pode dar aí um jeitinho e naturalizar o tipo que fundou Portugal?); que diz que o Pauleta foi melhor jogador que o Eusébio... e que este também não era Português; que diz que a língua Portuguesa não deriva do Latim; que a influência Romana parou ali junto a Badajoz e Ayamonte, e não se atreveu a passar a fronteira (impressionada, certamente, com a sofisticação cultural cá da Lusitânia); que foi devido à tenaz resistência dos irredutíveis Lusitanos (tenho quase a certeza que o Goscinny se inspirou em nós quando criou o Astérix e o Obélix) que estes se viram forçados a inventar mais dois meses (aproveito, já agora, para agradecer aos Romanos a invenção do mês de Janeiro, que me dá imenso jeito para fazer anos)... Enfim.... Isto tudo diz o génio, fazendo questão de garantir que o sangue que lhe corre nas veias é 100% Lusitano. E, ao que parece, isto faz dele um Português muito mais Português do que todos os outros. Os outros... bom, os outros são obviamente esses anormais que acham que o D. Afonso Henriques era Português, sim senhor; que as lágrimas do Pantera Negra em '66 no fim do jogo contra a Inglaterra não eram de saudades de Moçambique, mas sim de dôr pela derrota do seu país; que são do Benfica do Porto ou do Sporting (ok, eu sei que alguns são de equipas esquisitas como o Beira Mar e o Braga, mas de que equipa é o Portugallia?) ...Realmente... pensem bem no que é ser Português e digam-me. O que é que o Portugallia tem de Português? De nosso? Resposta? Nada. Como é que eu sei? Porque tenho a certezinha absoluta que qualquer bom Português lhe enfiava duas murraças focinho acima se alguma vez ele se levantasse no meio do Estádio da Luz e dissesse bem alto que se ouvisse: "O Eusébio?? Nããããããão esse gajo não é Português! Ele que vá pá terra dele!!". Ou se chegasse ali acima ao pé do Castelo de São Jorge e, de frente para a estátua do fundador, dissesse alto e bom som "Português tu?!! Nem pensar! Por causa de francius como tu é que a Lusitania não é pura e limpa!" A sério, parece que tou a ver e tudo: PAAAAAMMMMMM!!! PAAAAMMM!!! No focinho.