3. The portuguese culture is based on the celtic,
germanic, iberia and romanic‟ ones. The diference
between those cultures and the portuguese one is
the type of habitation, the religion, the food,
“folklore” or even on the typical streets .
4. The portgueuse language is one of the romantic
languages. As all the languages from this group,
the portuguese was descendant from the Latin. It
was desenvolved in the actual Galícia and on
Portugal‟s north, coming to Portugal until now.
5. Someof the tradicional clothes are still used on
Minho‟s north in weddings and others cerimonies.
7 skirts from Nazaré
6. Each region has its own
style of dance and music
and a huge part of them are
slower than Spain‟s one.
Examples :
Folklore dances
Corridinho
Saias
7. The “Fado” is the most popular type of music in
Portugal. The folkloric music and dance are still
important to the country. The word “fado” means
fatality cause of the sad nature of the music, but some
people think „regret‟ is the best explanation for this
type of music. Fado is the proud and satisfaction of
Portugal and it‟s also the biggest treasure from the
country.
8. Panting – the classic and romantic Italian and French
traditions influed some painters. Then, flemish artists ,
decored palace and convents , leaving a huge patrimony in
the religious art. In the sec. XIX happened the renascence
period in the national art and then the romantic period.
9. Glazedtile : is one of the most important types of
decorativ arts in Portugal. The portuguese glazed tile point
out cause of its geniality. Most of sec. XVI and XVII „s
buildings are maid of it.
10. Those influences are from roman and gotic ,
appearing in cathedrals . Good examples of it are :
Mosteiro de Jerónimos, Lisbon
Convento de Cristo, Tomar
Eduardo Souto Moura is the most famous portuguese
arquitect of residencial projects.
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12. The gypsy people are known as nomads, most of
them came from India‟s North and nowadays live
spread all over the world specially in Europe, but
they‟re always minority in every country where
they live. Countries with more number of gypsy
people are : Romania , Bulgaria and Spain ,
followed by a lot of others.
13. First gypsy have appeared in Europe on XII Century ,
and the first time they were saw in Portugal was in the
second half of XV Century. They‟re seen like not a good
influence but they‟re still here. In 1526 they were
forbidden of being in Portugal. On the XIX Century ,
the state started considering them Portuguese citizens,
even though they know the gypsy don‟t accept the law
from the country.
14. In
1996 most of gypsy children started going to
schools, but the results were very modest, as it was
found the dropout school rate increased.
15. The term gypsy style refers to the typical way East
European music is played in restaurants, parties, and
sometimes on-stage, in European cities. Music played in
this style is known by the general public as "gypsy
music".
It is mainly instrumental and usually performed by
strings. The accompaniment may be executed by various
instruments, but by preference includes a cimbalom and a
double bass.
16. Formed by many rhythm and different elements,
which one with means lightness , happiness and
feelings. On gypsy dance its movements express
sensuality, love, angry, happiness or sadness.
17. For gypsies, children are a strong source of
support, while the women „do the begging‟ and
read hands, when men reach adulthood start to
help their parents on the selling of craft products.
They‟re very religious, but their beliefs are very
influenced by the power of magic.
They have legends about secret powers and magic
rituals.
18. It‟svery different from Portuguese and it‟s only
used for this population. The vocabulary was made
by a mixture of a lot elements and it‟s named
Romani.
Some words :
- Acans = eyes - Dai (or Bata) = mother
- Aruvinhar = to cry - Kambulin = love
- Bato = father - Panin = water
- Ron = man
- Calin = gyspy woman
- Runin = woman
- Calon = gyspy man
- Trup = body
