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Users. 30 million (as of 2024) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [ 1][ 2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [ 3][ 4] The site operates in the resale of gaming offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for ...
The Águas Livres Aqueduct ( Portuguese: Aqueduto das Águas Livres, pronounced [ɐkɨˈðutu ðɐz ˈaɣwɐʒ ˈlivɾɨʃ], "Aqueduct of the Free Waters") is a historic aqueduct in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. It is one of the most remarkable examples of 18th-century Portuguese engineering. The main course of the aqueduct covers 18 km, but ...
The Museu da Água ( Water Museum) is located in Lisbon, Portugal. [1] The museum, the former steam pumping station of Barbadinhos, Lisbon, built in 1880, is in a 19th-century industrial building. The museum features four large steam engines dating from 1880. One has been reconditioned as a working demonstration. The pumps were in use until 1928.
Tejo Power Station [1] (the old Electricity Museum, in Portuguese Museu da Electricidade) is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy with a Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology concept, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events. Located in the Belém area on terrain ...
Avenida da Liberdade ( Portuguese for "Avenue of Liberty") is a boulevard in central Lisbon, Portugal, and is considered among the most expensive streets in Europe. Originating in the Passeio Público, an 18th-century park built for the Portuguese nobility, the avenue was built in 1879, when the former park was turned into a major boulevard ...
Lisbon has mild to warm, moderated temperatures. Winters are mild especially for its latitude with average daytime temperatures between 15 and 16 °C (59 and 61 °F) and nighttime lows between 8 and 10 °C (46 and 50 °F). Summers are warm to hot, but due to the upwelling phenomena in the western coasts of its metropolitan area, maxima in ...
Deaths. 1,900+. The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, anti-semitic riot that killed between 500 and 4,000 "new Christians" ( cristãos-novos ), the name for Jews who ...
Website. antt .dglab .gov .pt. The National Archive of Torre do Tombo ( Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo [ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]) is the Portuguese national archive located in the civil parish of Alvalade, in the municipality of central-northern Lisbon. Established in 1378, it was renamed the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais ( lit.