Legend of Porto
Showing posts with label río Duero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label río Duero. Show all posts
18 July 2023
Dom Luis Bridge over the Douro River in Porto (Portugal) painted by Julio Costa
Next to the Douro River lived long time ago a giant, always amused by playing dice. One night the giant dreamed that a man dressed in white, with a white beard, appeared to him and asked him to go down to the mouth of the river to build several churches there. "When you wake up take your dice throw them from the highest hill." Where the dice fall, churches must be built. The numbers on their faces will represent the number of blue and white tiles with which they will be decorated. So now, where they fell, are today the churches and monasteries of the city of Porto.
13 February 2023
Arrábida Bridge crossing the Douro River between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)
"There is on every river that special place made for a bridge to be built on. What one needs is to find it."
Edgar Cardoso,
builder of this bridge
08 November 2019
11 January 2019
Dom Luis Bridge over the Douro River in Porto (Portugal)
....Deixarão prolongar os horizontes
Até onde se extinga a cor da vida.
Por isso, é devagar que se aproxima
Da bem-aventurança.
É lentamente que o rabelo avança
Debaixo dos seus pés de marinheiro.
E cada hora a mais que gasta no caminho
É um sorvo a mais de cheiro
A terra e a rosmaninho!
End of the poem Rio Douro
by Dórdio Gomes
15 December 2018
12 December 2018
Dom Luis I Bridge over the Douro River between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)
"The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with a 2,000-year history. Its continuous growth, linked to the sea (the Romans gave it the name Portus, or port), can be seen in the many and varied monuments, from the cathedral with its Romanesque choir, to the neoclassical Stock Exchange and the typically Portuguese Manueline-style Church of Santa Clara."
Historic Centre of Oporto
as UNESCO World Heritage Site
09 September 2013
Dom Luis I Bridge over the Douro River between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)
Ver o Porto é evocar certa forma de cidade escondida que
conservamos dentro de nós, densa, inpenetrável, como a neblina
envolvendo as manhãs e fundindo o rio com os cais e os barcos. Ilusão de
sombras irreais. Transparências. Crepúsculos caindo,suaves, recortando a
leveza das pontes, a elegância das torres, os contornos do casario.
Helder Pacheco
03 September 2013
05 January 2012
12 August 2011
20 June 2009
Bridge across the Douro River in Aranda de Duero, Burgos (Spain)
De Iberia y de Castilla. ¡Oh tierra triste y noble,
La de los altos llanos y yermos y roquedas,
De campos si arados, regatos ni arboledas;
Decrépitas ciudades, caminos sin mesones,
Y atónitos palurdos sin danzas ni canciones
Que aún van, abandonando el mortecino hogar,
Como tus largos ríos, Castilla, hacia la mar.
Castilla miserable, ayer dominadora,
Envuelta en sus andrajos, desprecia cuanto ignora.
¿Espera, duerme o sueña? ¿La sangre derramada
Recuerda, cuando tuvo la fiebre de la espada?
Antonio Machado
14 July 2007
Puente de Piedra (Stone Bridge) over the river Duero in Zamora (Spain)
Zamora de Doña Urraca,
Zamora del Cid mancebo,
Zamora del rey Don Sancho,
¡ay Bellido traicionero!
Zamora de torres de ojos,
Zamora del recio ensueño,
mi románica Zamora,
poso en Castilla del cielo
de las leyendas heroicas
del lejano romancero,
Zamora dormida en brazos
corrientes del padre Duero.
Miguel de Unamuno
20 June 2007
09 June 2007
Puente de Piedra (Stone Bridge) over the Douro River in Zamora (Spain)
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