History of Belmonte
Belmonte is a county almost as old as Nationality. The village of Belmonte was chartered in 1199 and is situated on the panoramic Monte da Esperança (ancient Montes Crestados), on whose most rocky hill was built at the end of the 18th century. XII your castle …
Pedro Álvares Cabral
After the return of Vasco da Gama, D. Manuel sent to India a new armada, more numerous and militarily stronger. Thirteen ships were dispatched, with crew and men of war for a total of 1,500. It was assumed that they were able to establish commercial and political guidelines that Vasco da Gama …
Municipal Identity
Belmonte is a county almost as old as Nationality. The village of Belmonte was chartered in 1199 and is situated on the panoramic Monte da Esperança (ancient Montes Crestados), on whose most rocky hill was built at the end of the 18th century. XII your castle …
Jewish Community in Belmonte
The community of Belmonte houses an important fact of the Sephardic Jewish history, related to the resistance of the Jews to religious intolerance in the Iberian Peninsula. In the sixteenth century, upon the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and the reconquest of Spanish and Portuguese lands by the Catholic Kings and D. Manuel …
Twinning
The twinning of cities is a concept that aims to create relations and protocol mechanisms, essentially at a spatial, economic and cultural level, through which cities of different geographic or political areas establish cooperation ties.
