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Artisaga - A virtual tour of the Vila Real district, including history, heritage, nature, handicrafts, wine, restaurants and accommodation.
Virtual Tour of Chaves - A tour of Chaves with text and pictures.
Burmester - Port wine producer located near Pinhão. Includes a history of this company which has been shipping port wine since the 18th century, and description of the vineyard and products.
Chaves - Ray Vogensen gives a mass of information about the town including its tourist attractions, geography, society, economy, and history.
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Vila Real "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Vila Real Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Vila Real In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Vila Real "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Vila Real The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Vila Real In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Vila Real Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Vila Real Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Vila Real I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Vila Real "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Vila Real Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Vila Real We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Vila Real People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Vila Real Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Vila Real Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Vila Real There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Vila Real "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Vila Real Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Vila Real Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Vila Real True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vila Real Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Vila Real
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