The best city hikes and walks around Oeiras E São Julião Da Barra

Estádio Municipal de Oeiras 🏟️ 🧭 Rua Coro de Santo Amaro de Oeiras 12 2780-416 Oeiras Portugal https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/102265759920423/estadio-municipal-de-oeiras/?hl=de

📖 The modern Last Supper, known as „A Última Ceia“, is a sculpture by the Belgian-Portuguese sculptor Francis Tondeur. It is located in the Parque dos Poetas in Oeiras, in the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. The monumental work represents a modern interpretation of the famous last supper and is part of the park's permanent exhibition.

📖 Official page of the city administration https://www.oeiras.pt/parque-dos-poetas

🌴🗿🌹🌳 The very history of this equipment, the chosen site for its construction, already carries within it a memory with many poetic textures that stretch from the plateau, in a land where there were ancient fields of crops and pastures and which descends to the riverside area, the open sea, as a navigation guide. At the top, in what was designated as Morro do Puxa Feixe, stands the Temple of Poetry, like a large white, luminous cathedral. It constitutes a visual landmark and a guiding reference for the entire park and its surroundings due to its unique shapes, strategic positioning, and luminous signage, resembling a lighthouse or a ship, with a huge terrace facing the entrance to the Tagus River and the maritime fortifications. A Greek Temple in the classical manner, on a mount raised above the ocean and reconnecting all things, all the life that flourishes and inhabits not only the Park, but which metamorphoses every minute, creating new semiotics and new territories. The symbology, the simultaneous experience of interiority and exteriority that is felt, is not only mystical, with traces of religiosity, but also profoundly human, profane, and poetic. It is the ideal sacred space to pay homage to poetry, that great muse which constitutes the first form of discourse about the world and the truest. The one that builds the immateriality of emotions and life and gives it body. The one that speaks most appropriately of our finite and ephemeral humanity and gives it meaning. Come visit the Parque dos Poetas. Celebrate life intensely. Poetry is around here. palavras27.oeiras.pt/?page_id=2561

🌴🗿🌹🌳 The 22.5 hectares that constitute this bold project are the result of this dream and a legacy of words, painstakingly crafted by a group of 60 poets who draw a map that we traverse from the Troubadours, of the Renaissance and one of its greatest figures, Luís Vaz de Camões, to the 20th century, with poets like Fernando Pessoa, Ruy Belo, Alexandre O’Neill, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen or Natália Correia, to name just a few of the best known. There is a whole universe to discover and gather in a vast tapestry of poems written by various hands, over the centuries, forming a book on a grand scale, which is read on the flagstones of the ground, in sculptural installations, in various buildings, in amphitheaters and in all elements fused with nature. The tree is the great symbolic structure that runs through this true Open-Air Museum. Each leaf represents the microcosm of the poet and their meanings. The tree, the stones, the waters constitute the Grove of Symbols where the poetic word is realized and where the nature of the world, of Man and his representations, desires, dreams, anxieties, dramas are realized. Even so, and despite all that can be said, no description dispenses with the aesthetic enjoyment and poetic experience of this place. What each person feels in this Acropolis which gathers, like a great Agora, an Assembly of Voices, among poets, sculptors, workers, architects, landscapers. The makers of the dream. www.palavras27.oeiras.pt/?page_id=2561

🌴🗿🌹🌳 The Park of Poets is a unique facility located in Oeiras whose geographical, environmental, and cultural circumstances make it one of the largest and most beautiful in the world. It is a great open-air metaphor, the raw material of a great poem whose verses were woven and written in the perfect dialogue between landscape, poetry, and sculpture. The project dates back to May 20, 1995, when two prominent figures of Portuguese culture met at the Verney Gallery: David Mourão Ferreira and Francisco Simões. From a joint exhibition of the work of these two masters of Portuguese culture, a friendship and an idea were built: to associate poetry and sculpture in a tribute to 20th-century Portuguese culture. Something that would constitute a distinctive mark of the Municipality of Oeiras and represent a homage to the legacy that poets and visual artists passed on to new generations of Portuguese people. The 20th century was just the starting point of a larger journey that spans several centuries and authors, including, in this group, all those writing in Portuguese, from the so-called diaspora, which would give rise to terms like lusophony, whose controversial nature raises questions, which we are aware of, but which does not deny the contamination of a linguistic heritage that is a genetic mark of peoples https://palavras27.oeiras.pt/?page_id=2561

📖 Manuel Alegre (* 12 May 1936 in Águeda) is a Portuguese poet and socialist politician. He was an independent candidate for the 2006 presidential election. Alegre also ran again in the 2011 presidential election. During his law studies at the University of Coimbra, he became an opponent of António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorial regime. He was drafted into the military and sent to the Azores, and later to Angola. There, his participation in an attempted military rebellion led to his arrest. After his time in prison in Luanda, he returned to Coimbra before going into exile in 1964. As a student, he played an active role in the Associação Académica de Coimbra, as a member of the board, as an athlete, and in theatre and poetry. He spent the next 10 years in Algiers, where he was one of the most important voices of the Voz de Liberdade/Voice of Freedom radio broadcasts directed at Portugal. The publication of his first books was prohibited by the Salazar regime, so they circulated as samizdat. Alegre returned to Portugal in 1974, one week after the Carnation Revolution began. Immediately afterwards, he joined the Socialist Party and has been elected to Parliament in every election since 1975. Currently, he is one of the Vice-Presidents of Parliament and holds a seat on the Council of State, which advises the President. Several of his poems have been set to music, sung by, among others, José Afonso and Adriano Correia de Oliveira, and performed by Carlos Paredes. One of his poems, Uma flor de verde pinho, won at the 1976 RTP de Canção Festival and represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2004, he lost the election for party leadership to José Sócrates. In 2005, a statue was erected in his honor in Coimbra. On 24 September 2005, he announced that he would run for the 2006 presidential election, despite his party's official support for former President Mário Soares. In the election on 22 September 2006, he received 20.6% of the votes cast, the second-highest share of votes after the elected Aníbal Cavaco Silva and ahead of Mário Soares. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alegre

📖 António Victor Ramos Rosa (born 17 October 1924 in Faro, Algarve; died 23 September 2013 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese poet, essayist, and translator. He was one of the most important Portuguese poets of the 20th century. Rosa was born in Faro, where he also spent his youth. From a young age, he was passionate about literature, especially poetry. In 1945, he came to Lisbon, where he joined an opposition youth group against the Salazar regime, which earned him some time in prison, and in 1947 he returned to his hometown, Faro. In Lisbon, he had worked as an office clerk. During his stay in Faro, he worked, among other things, as a translator and again as an office clerk, and also taught Portuguese, French, and Italian there. Since the 1960s, he worked as a freelance writer in Lisbon, where he died in September 2013 at the age of 88 from complications of bacterial pneumonia. António Ramos Rosa published around 50 volumes of poetry, was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and won all the major contemporary literary awards in Portugal. He is seen as Portugal's great nature poet, for whom the elements – fire, water, air, and earth – are most important. The question of the origin of all being also constantly occupied him in his writing. He was a co-founder of the literary magazines Árvore, Casseiopeia, and Cadernos do Meio Dia. Countless publications in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies at home and abroad are part of his work. Around ten books were translated into French, and five into Spanish. He made his debut as a poet and author in 1958 with the booklet O guito claro. He was a leading member of the literary group Poesia 61. As an essayist, he also published many books, but did not achieve the significance he reached as a poet. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Ramos_Rosa