As I mentioned in our last class I was thinking we could all go to the theater to see Shakespeare's " Winter's Tale" : I suggest the 14th or the 15 th. Please let me know as soon as possible to book the tickets. It's by THE LISBON PLAYERS, you can check who they are here : http://www.lisbonplayers.com.pt/
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It was a cold, yet pleasant autumnal evening. The morning dew had already dried by the time he returned home. It had been an exhausting day of work, just like many others, and suddenly he stumbled – his first thought was to grasp the banister before he fell. He then sat on one of the steps, and clung to old memories, as he tried to fight back the dizziness.
Inside the house, a melodic voice could be heard. "This is odd, to say the least" – he thought. He hadn’t heard the canary sing since last summer. “Seldom do these birds sing in the middle of autumn”. Turning the knob, he opened the door and his dog was the first to enter the house – “Yeah, I know, dogs first” – he whispered, smiling. As the years passed by, he grew used to the animal's antics. When the door closed behind him, he called his four-legged friend. He didn’t come, though. He started looking for him. After he entered the kitchen, there he was, staring at the singing bird. Strangely enough, the yellow creature didn't stop singing, as if he didn’t mind the dog. In fact, his voice echoed louder and louder. “Well, I guess I have no other choice. Sing away, my friend.” He bribed the dog with a cookie in order to take him back to the garden. Delightful as its voice was, he wouldn't have minded to continue listening to the bird, but when he poured some tea into a cup, he stopped; and that second felt like a glass shattering. Then the little one began chirping, perhaps trying to ask for something. “Do you want tea?” Now that was weird, after all those years taking care of his pets, he’d never thought he would one day feed one of the birds on tea. He approached the white cage carefully trying not to scare the canaries, and filled one of the water containers with tea. “There you have it.” Much to his surprise, both birds started to drink it. “That’s what you can call, having Tea with the Birds”.
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e and the food we put on the table. Everyone should be aware of the fact that preserving our natural habitat is a matter of the utmost concern.
between the mountains, the ocean, the desert and the jungle, all of them are here to teach us 
more about the spirit of God.
by lots of parents who take their children to play there. The children have a place to learn how to drive and learn the traffic signals as well.
Jardins Tropical do Inst. Investigação Cientifica e Tropical
This book is part of a great and well known collection from Taschen. I chose, specifically, this one, not because it’s the best of them all but because I wanted to present to you this important painter of the 20th century.
Faeries have always been a part of children’s imaginary but Brian Froud caught adults’ attention with his amazing drawings and its descriptions or surprising additional texts.
November 12th
This other poto was als taken in 1959 (at the end of the school year we'd always have a play)
Blue (yes, the survivor!). 
Alvalade XXI stadium was opened on 6 August 2003. The official stadium of football club Sporting is a big, impressive building, boasting a splash of colours which are associated with the team: green, yellow and white. A further point that was of interest to us was that the seats are all coloured in a rainbow of colours, so as to have the feeling of a full house for every game.
Marconi building is, in an aesthetic, architectonic and constructive perspective, a great reference of Lisbon.
It’s populated by 8.000 animals.
And plants of over 500 species.
It integrates five main habitats.
Its central tank has about
Overall, the Oceanary is composed by 30 tanks containing over
Vasco da Gama is the most recent bridge over River Tagus in the area of
- However, it was not inaugurated until 1960.
- It stands
- It portraits and celebrates the Age of Discovery period.
- Therefore, the base sculpture is a caravel, and aboard are the most prominent Portuguese explorers: Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, Luís de Camões (although he was a poet, he also took part in a voyage to
- The pavement in front of the Monument depicts a wind rose, along with a world map that displays the routes taken by the Portuguese during the Age of Discovery.
-It was inaugurated in 1959.
-It is 109m high, and it is built on a portico 75m high. On its top, the statue of the Redeemer opens his arms wide, facing the city. The arms span is 28 meters.
- It’s one of the tallest constructions in
The 25th April Bridge
- It took almost four years for the bridge to be built.
- It opened to traffic in August 6th 1966.
- Its size:
- At the time of its completion, the southern tower foundation was the world's deepest (82 meters).
- It was the first suspended bridge in the world providing both a railway and a road.
- The northern tower pillar was built over a seismic fault. This was found out only upon the construction of its foundations. Because of this, it requires maintenance, from time to time.
- It was where the royal palace was located for 200 years.
- In 1551, D. Manuel I moved from St. Jorge's Castle to this location.
- Unfortunately, this palace (and its library, which contained 70 000 books) was utterly destroyed during the earthquake that took place in 1755.
- Later on, this square was a priority to Marquês de Pombal, who reconstructed it.
- In the middle of the Square stands an equestrian statue depicting D. José I and his horse, stomping snakes (adversity), built in 1775 by Machado de Castro, a distinguished Portuguese sculptor.
- In the northern part of the square, an Arch of Triumph can be seen, and it's the entrance to the "Baixa" - Portuguese word for downtown.
- In 1974 the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) would take place here.
The
- It was built in 1515 by D. Manuel, and until 1580 it was used as a fortress.
- In 1580, the Tower couldn't withstand the Spanish siege, and it becomes a dungeon for the estate. The bastion was increased, in order to provide more room for the soldiers.
- In 1589 Filipe II (the Spanish Sovereign) orders the construction of a parallelepiped building, named "os Quartéis Filipinos" (the Filipine Quarters), which would be demolished during the 
Belém’s Cultural Centre
Jerónimos Monastery
Its construction began in 1501, on the orders of King Manuel I. It was chosen as the Royal Pantheon and was financed by the gold brought from
World Heritage Site.
The question we asked ourselves when we considered this topic was: “Why is there art in the Metro?”. After looking at the Metro website, out of curiosity, we found out that after the Metro was constructed in the 50’s, they decided they wanted to make this a place to shine over the bad atmosphere of an underground system. The way they thought of doing this was to introduce art to the stations, and therefore make the stations an enjoyable place to wait for a train, rather than a depressing one.
The photos we took highlight, what we perceive to be, the most prominent of the stations in terms of art, as well as ones that we personally enjoy looking at the most.
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