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Lisbon – Church of Santa Maria Belem in the monastery of los Jerónimos
The monastery of Jerónimos in the neighborhood of Belém is the monument of Lisbon where you find the best exponent of the so-called Manueline style architecture.
And during your visit to this monument, the principal of the capital of Portugal, the corner where you can see with splendour the peculiar characteristics of this Portuguese architectural style is undoubtedly in the Church of Santa María of Belem.
Manueline architecture was developed in Portugal during the 16th century, and comes to be a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance, styles with Portuguese mudejar notes. Read the rest of this entry »
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church of santa maria belem/Portugal’s cuisine is within the category of Mediterranean cuisine but takes the particularity of receiving input from its former colonies in Asia, Africa and America. It also adopted some aspects of Arabic and Spanish cuisine.
Portuguese landscape defined by the sea, fields and mountains is what makes the trend of your own kitchen. Cod is the jewel of the country and some people say that there are 365 different ways of cooking. After this dish star, comes in order of importance, pork, sausages and great variety of cheeses. As dressing, is often used a variety of olive oils.
The salted cod and cure the fundamental key is the desalted preparation. Once this is done, each chef displays his own recipe to cook: it can be to be braised cod, à Gomes Sá, cod in a delicious stew or pataniscas, which is a thin fritters accompanied by a delicious feijoada with rice. As for the fish in general, there is a strong tradition of eating them in spits that are kind of kebabs such as sardines. Bream, tuna, grouper, octopus, shrimp, clams, shrimp and prawns complete supply of seafood.