Companhia de Fiação e Tecidos de Fafe A company that marked a region Companhia de Fiação e Tecidos de Fafe ( Fafe , Portugal) has its origins back to 1887, evolved from its predecessor, Companhia Industrial de Fafe. Originally operating in grain milling and also into the [...]
Companhia de Fiação de Crestuma Companhia de Fiação de Crestuma was a 19th century textile factory located on the banks of the Uíma River, Crestuma, Lever, Vila Nova de Gaia.Born in the terrains of another industry, the textile factory soon became one [...]
Marão, to look beyond mountains Serra do Marão is located in the region between Trás-os-Montes and Douro Litoral and it's part of a rocky mountains ridge (along with Gralheira, Montemuro and Alvão) that separates Minho from Trás-os-Montes.Geological morphology [...]
Exposição do Mundo Português took place in Lisbon in 1940, from 23 June to 2 December, commemorating 800 years since the country foundation and 300 years since independence from Spain. The exhibition alone was an architectural splendor, expressing the creativity of Cottinelli Telmo it's major architect [...]
SOREFAME, shaping steel and progress SOREFAME - Sociedades Reunidas de Fabricações Metálicas, S.A.R.L. was probably a company that forever marked the industrial history of Portugal, not only by what it produced but, also for the tremendous know-how and manufacture [...]
D Luis Bridge, a marking memory D Luis Bridge is perhaps the most iconic and popular of all the six bridges in the Oporto city. Standing between the margins of the city and Vila Nova de Gaia, this [...]
Sampaio Ferreira & Cª, Textiles, Electricity and a Legacy Sampaio Ferreira & Cª, Lda. is another extension of the great work and vision of the industrialist Narciso Ferreira.Introduction to the industrial profile of Narciso Ferreira was already made in [...]
Empresa Têxtil Eléctrica, Lda (ETE for short), was a textile company founded in 1905 in between the municipalities of Vila Nova de Famalicão and Santo Tirso, near the margins of the Ave river.The company was at the time an important textile industry but also innovated by the [...]
Maria Pia Bridge, an iconic iron bridge Maria Pia Bridge is one of the most iconic if not the most, bridges in the Oporto city.It is a railroad bridge between the city and it's neighbor counterpart Vila Nova [...]
Reguladora, The Time Through Times Fábrica Nacional de Relógios, Reguladora SA. , or just Reguladora, or more dearly A Boa Reguladora, in Vila Nova de Famalicão, is the oldest watch and clock manufacturing companies in the Iberian Peninsula and, [...]
