At the end of March, the Club organised a trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca with cultural visits to museums, cathedrals, monuments and places of historical or architectural interest. We had lunch in Viseu before continuing on to Bragança, where in the afternoon we went for a stroll around the historic city centre. The followingContinue reading “Trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca – Bragança”
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Trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca – Salamanca
Cervantes said: ‘Salamanca makes all those who have enjoyed the pleasant experience of living there yearn to return’. A city with a rich historical and cultural legacy, with an abundance of medieval architecture, nicknamed La Dorada (The Golden) for its golden sandstone buildings that seem to glow in the sunlight. Its University was one ofContinue reading “Trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca – Salamanca”
Trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca – Zamora
After the visit to the Citadel, we set off for Zamora, a beautiful Spanish walled city, the ‘capital of the Romanesque’ with twenty-three Romanesque churches, which stands on the banks of the River Douro and has a rich historical, cultural and gastronomic heritage. We started the next day with a visit to the Cathedral MuseumContinue reading “Trip to Bragança, Zamora and Salamanca – Zamora”
Women’s Day Celebration
Once again, the Club celebrated Women’s Day with a tea party at the Avenida Palace Hotel. Our guest this year was the illustrious architect Helena Roseta, who gave us an exceptional text on the various ‘times’ in our lives.
Tea at the CMN
On 28 February, another tea party was held at the Naval Military Club. It was a very interesting, enjoyable and entertaining session, with our member Clara evoking memories of her childhood and adolescence in her stories, pieces of a generation’s holidays that are no longer coming back. Thank you, Clara, for your availability and congratulationsContinue reading “Tea at the CMN”
Visit to the Ajuda Palace
The Lyceum’s most recent activity, on 18 February, was a visit to the Ajuda Palace. Although already familiar to the whole group, it presents a collection that is a pleasure to revisit. It is the only royal palace that remains as authentic as when it was inhabited by the royal family. It was only inContinue reading “Visit to the Ajuda Palace”
Club’s anniversary
On 12 February, the Lyceum Club of Lisbon celebrated its 23rd anniversary at the Seixas Palace in Cascais, with an excellent lunch and a very pleasant get-together between all the lycees present, as is customary at our Club.
Guided tour of the Lisbon Museum
Still in January, the club organised a guided tour of the Museum of Lisbon, especially of the recently opened rooms. Through models, engravings, paintings, photographs, furniture, ceramics and tiles, many presented for the first time, the city’s history is told from the 17th century to the end of the 20th century. The 1755 earthquake, LisbonContinue reading “Guided tour of the Lisbon Museum”
Celebrating Camões
At the Grémio Literário, the Lyceum International Club of Lisbon honoured our best-known and most important poet on the 500th anniversary of his birth. At the Lyceum’s invitation, we were joined by an illustrious personality, a connoisseur and scholar of the vate, and also a member of parliament. Edite Estrela gave what is considered aContinue reading “Celebrating Camões”
Venice in celebration
The Club began its activities in 2025 with a guided tour of the ‘Venice in Celebration’ exhibition, the theme of which was 18th-century Venetian painting, a collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. We enjoyed paintings by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giambabattista Tiepolo, Michele Mariechi and others. Canaletto demonstrated a splendidContinue reading “Venice in celebration”