VISIT TO BRAZIL
EXHIBITION
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Rio de Janeiro
09.03.2008
YOUR MESSAGES
- É um orgulho para nós Portugueses, ver o trabalho que o Exmº. Srº. Presidente da República tem desenpenhado, a bem da Nação.Portugal e Brasil são irmãos. Bem haja Srº. Presidente e continuo, assim para bem de todos os povos irmãos. Estamos consigo em tudo quanto Vossa Exª. pretender fazer, gostava de o conhecer...
Fernanda Dias, Portugal
- A visita do Senhor Presidente à Comunidade Portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro, quando assinala mais um ano do seu mandato, contribui para que cada vez mais cultivemos na Diáspora, o orgulho de ser Português.
António Gomes, Brasil
PICTURE GALLERY
HIGHLIGHTS
Ceremony in the Imperial Palace in Rio de Janeiro
- President of the Republic attends acts commemorating the arrival of King João VI in Rio
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At the invitation of the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, César Maia, the President of the Republic attended various commemorative acts of the bicentenary of the arrival of the Portuguese Court in Brazil.
Received wit Military Honours, the President attended, in the refurbished Church of Our Lady of Carmo, a concert performed by the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, which played the “Mass of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception”.
This was followed, also in the same Church, by a “son et lumiere” show depicting the arrival of King João VI in Rio de Janeiro, after which Mayor César Maia hosted a dinner in honour of the President of the Republic, held in the former building of the Imperial Palace. On the occasion President Cavaco Silva delivered a speech.
Read here the speech addressed by the President of the Republic08.03.2008
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