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Schedules, prices and history of Piriquita Pastrys

Address: Rua das Padarias 1 and 18. 2710-603 Sintra.

Schedules of Piriquita pastrys

Piriquita 1
Close on wednesdays
From 09:00 until 20:00.

Piriquita 2
Close on tuesdays
From 08:30 until 20:00.

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Piriquita history

CASA PIRIQUITA
The bakery that would later be known as Piriquita was founded in 1862, about 160 years. Worked there Amaro dos Santos, a baker by trade and his wife Constância Gomes.
The name Piriquita comes from the nickname that King Carlos I gave Constância Gomes, based on her short stature. It was King Carlos I who encouraged the couple to bake the famous Queijadas, the sweet he enjoyed during his summers in Sintra. The success was immediate and fast the bakery turned into pastry.
Over the 160 years much has changed but too much remains the same, like the quality of the products and the family that is dedicated to serve its customers around the world. In the 40’s while much of the world was getting wrecked, in Sintra was born a new treasure. Constância Cunha, granddaughter of the founder, developed the Travesseiro, a pastry stuffed with sweet eggs and with a almond touch, but with the secret so well guarded that only the direct family has access to the stuffing recipe.
Today with the fifth generation this is a rare case of survival of a family project.
Source: Piriquita pastry

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Schedules, prices and history of MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

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Lisboa Card

Free:
– MAAT Members
– General public: first Sunday every month from 10:00 t0 13:00.
– Children (-12).
– Visitors with specific needs + 1 Accompanying.

Address: Avenida de Brasília, Belém. 1300-598 Lisboa.

History of Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Launched in October 2016, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) is an international institution dedicated to fostering critical discourse and creative practice that inspire new understandings of the historical present and an empowering engagement with the common future.
Located on the riverfront of the historic district of Belém, in Lisbon, covers an area of 38,000 square metres and comprises a repurposed power station — the Central Tejo, an iconic example of industrial architecture originally built in 1908 — and a newly built complex designed by the London-based architecture studio AL_A (Amanda Levete Architects). Both buildings house exhibitions and events programmed by the museum and are connected by a landscape project by Lebanese architect Vladimir Djurovic.
Drawing upon the layered history preserved in its architectural and artistic heritage, MAAT advocates for the museum as a catalyst platform to render discourse actionable and empower audiences to own their choices through the articulation of debate, the sharing of positions and the formulation of knowledge. With the aim of encouraging an open-ended and transformative relationship between cultural institutions and societal change, the museum simultaneously interrogates and celebrates the intellectual ambitions and the creative means through which we imagine (with art), inhabit (with architecture) and create (with technology) the world we live in, the ways in which we constantly redesign our collective undertakings in respect of the planetary ecosystem we belong to.
Source: MAAT.

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Schedules, prices and history of Monument to the Discoveries

Schedules of Monument to the Discoveries

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– Young people aged 13 to 18 years living in the municipality of Lisbon.
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– Residents in Lisbon county on Sundays and holidays until 2pm.

Address: Avenida Brasília. 1400-038 Lisboa.

Monument to the Discoveries history

The Monument to the Discoveries, was first erected, in 1940 for the Portuguese World Exhibition. Built from perishable materials, it had a light iron and cement structure.
In 1960, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Monument was rebuilt in concrete and rose stone from Leiria, and the sculptures were made of limestone from Sintra.
The Monument to the Discoveries evokes Portugal’s overseas expansion, symbolising the Art of Navigation and the greatness of the work of Prince Henry the Navigator, the driving force behind the discoveries.
A caravel, carrying on its bow Prince Henry the Navigator and some of the leading figures (32) of the culture of the time, navigators, cartographers, warriors, colonisers, evangelisers, chroniclers and artists, are depicted with the symbols that individualise them.
A stylized mast has on each side two Portuguese shields with five corners, surrounded by a band with 12 castles and several fleurs-de-lis in the center. The monument is flanked by two metal armillary spheres.

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Saint Jerome College

Saint Jerome College the City Hall history

It is located in the Plaza de Obradoiro, just in front of the cathedral.
This hall of residence was originally a foundation of Archbishop Compostelano Alonso III de Fonseca, with the intention of dedicating it to a school for poor students and artists, which was located in the so-called Hospicio de la Azabachería.
During the year 1652, it was decided to move it from that location. For this purpose, a new building was built, in what was then called Plaza del Hospital (because the Hospital of the Catholic Monarchs was located there), the current Plaza del Obradoiro.
A building of lines and two sections high, in which the medieval portico was inserted, coming from the said Hospice, which until that height housed the school, which is usually dated between 1490 and 1500. It disappeared as a residence hall in 1840.

Address: Praza do Obradoiro. 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Espanha.