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Politics far removed from Miranda do Douro

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Miranda do Douro has never seen large rallies. The campaign rarely visits the Trás-os-Montes municipality.

RTP Notícias2 Feb

Politics far removed from Miranda do Douro

Ventura gains ground in PSD territory. "He's not Dom Sebastião nor any bogeyman"

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The leader of Chega received 28.69% of the vote in Murça, a municipality traditionally held by the PSD. Marques Mendes managed only 19.57%. Why? “Down there they have everything; here we have nothing.”

Público19 Jan

Ventura gains ground in PSD territory. "He's not Dom Sebastião nor any bogeyman"

Portugal

1755:The Lisbon earthquake of 1755
At about 9.40 on the morning of All Saints' Day, with many people at Mass, a massive earthquake devastates Lisbon. Roughly 45 minutes to an hour later a tsunami surges up the Tagus into the lower town, and fires burn for days; modern estimates of the dead in Lisbon alone run from about 10,000 to 40,000.
Read more Earthquake and Enlightenment, 1750–1807
2011: The American surfer Garrett McNamara rides a wave of about 23.8 metres (78 feet) off Praia do Norte in Nazaré, a Guinness world record that put the fishing town's giant winter swells, funnelled by the Nazaré Canyon, on the global surfing map.

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1993: The Maastricht Treaty, signed in the Dutch city in February 1992, enters into force, creating the European Union and laying the foundations for European citizenship and the single currency.

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