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The pandemic caught Portugal in a period of economic stability and good prospects for the future. GDP growth in 2019 even exceeded the government’s expectations, similarly, public finances closed the year with a slight surplus, which happened for the first time since 1973. The surplus budget was thus planned by the government for the first time for 2020 as well. However, the coronavirus crisis brought about a fundamental reversal, and the country was forced to urgently revise estimates of the…

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Funchal is the capital of the island of Madeira. It is rich in monuments of religious architecture, most of which were built in the 15th – 16th centuries. In the civil architecture of the city, the City Hall (XVIII century), the Customs building (XVI century), the fortress-palace of St. Lawrence (XVI century), the forts do Pico and Santiago (XVII-XVIII centuries) are noteworthy. Of the museums, it is worth noting the Museum of Ecclesiastical Art (Flemish and Portuguese paintings of the…

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Twentieth-century Portuguese literature has evolved under the banner of the coexistence of two contrasting and at the same time complementary elements: the drive to broaden horizons beyond national borders and attachment to characteristics that are felt to be peculiar to local tradition. In this sort of “pendulum swing” now one and then the other of the two factors has prevailed: the attempt to “universalize” with the symbolist experience of E. de Castro (1869-1944) – that this experience poetics gives the…

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