Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Lisbon. / 38.72528°N 9.15000°W / 38.72528; -9.15000. Lisbon ( / ˈlɪzbən / LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [ 3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [ 4] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [ 5]
The next list is a list of the main cargo ports in Portugal, also including ports located in the Azores and Madeira islands. These ports are included in APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal , a non-profit association with the objective of exchanging information and debates, contributing to the modernization of the national system of ...
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.
The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon GCSE ( Portuguese: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) is Portugal 's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal. [1] It is one of Portugal's most prestigious scientific authorities and the official regulator of ...
Casino Lisboa (left) and Vodafone Portugal HQ (right) from the Tagus The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest bridge in both the European Union and Europe. Parque das Nações was the designation given to the neighborhood that emerged within the former Intervention Zone of Expo, encompassing the site where the 1998 World Expo was held as well as all areas that were under the administration of ...
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. [ 3] In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas.