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Some photos from out recent trip to Leiria (centre of Portugal)

Printing presses, city landscape, #Extramuralhas #music

A photo of the free entrance at the gothic music festival extramuralhas that happens every year showing the name of the bands and the sky at dusk

A church's outside wall with a blue and white tile panel depicting an old printing press

A photo taken from below showing the top of some old buildings against a blue and clear sky

A black metal sign with some history about the place reading:
THE PRINTING PRESS IN LEIRIA
The self-governing Jewish community of Leiria grew steadily from its foundation, documented since the 13th century, until the 15th century. The arrival to Leiria of the Orta family, in 1492, led to the establishment of one of the first printing presses in Portugal. It should be noted that, by a royal grant received in 1411, paper was already produced in Leiria where the Paper Mill museum stands today. The Jewish family of Samuel A Orta and his three sons, particularly Abraão de Orta, printed several books in Leiria, among which Solomon's Proverbs, The First Prophets, Way of Life and Talmudic Methodology, all in Hebrew.
The incunable Almanach Perpetuum, by the
mathematician and astronomer Abraão Zacuto, was printed in the Orta press in 1496, in Latin and Castilian. The translations were made by José Vizinho also a Jew, and physician of king João 1 (1455-1495). The astronomical tables published in this book, together with the astrolabe, played a fundamental role in Atlantic navigation and in the Portuguese discoveries.

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