COORDINATED BY: Ms. Fernanda Pereira, Director

Portugal, the most Western country of Europe, looks to the ocean, and it was in Portugal that the era of discoveries started in the 15th century. Prince Henry the Navigator established a training school for sailors and organized the explorations of the West African coastline. Vasco de Gama sailed to India. The Portuguese language is connected with that of Spain's region of Galicia. It also became that of Brazil which the Portuguese colonized.