a voyage with portuguese discoveries

Portuguese discoveries are an important group of maritime exploitations done from 1415 to 1543.

They have contributed to a great change on World’s map.

They were, above all an opportunity to show Portuguese people’s courage, value and profound innovation.

With this project we invite you to a trip across the globe; twenty five steps of that adventure since the first expedition to Canarias in 1336 until the arrival in Japan in 1542.

Sources: Flickr commons Wikipedia Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Cronologia dos Descobrimentos, disponível em http://www2.crb.ucp.pt/Historia/abced%C3%A1rio/start.htm Faculdade de Letras da Univ. de Coimbra, História dos Descobrimentos, disponível em https://woc.uc.pt/fluc/class/getbibliography.do?idyear=6&idclass=3879# Instituto Camões, A aventura dos dos Descobrimentos, disponível em http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/destaques/a-aventura-dos-descobrimentos.html