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Encyclopedia > Miranda de Douro

Miranda do Douro is a town in Bragança, in the NE Portugal. The adjacent area is home to the speakers of Mirandês (Mirandese), a dialect of Leonese language, that was recognized in 1999 by the Portuguese state as co-official with Portuguese language for local matters.


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Tradições Mirandesas (977 words)
De referir é o facto de o folclore mirandês ser internacionalmente conhecido mercê de uma divulgação feita a partir de 1898, ano em que os Pauliteiros se apresentaram perante o rei D. Carlos I e a ~ daí deram início à distracção de populações distantes como novidade e curiosidade folclórica e coreográfica.
A gaita de fole mirandesa tem dimensões próprias (sendo maior que a gaita de fole galega), a pele de cabrito de que é feito o fole é simplesmente virada ao contrário e atada aos tubos de madeira (ronca ou bordão, ponteira de secção cónica com orifícios onde se executa a melodia e tubo insuflador).
O corpo de fabrico artesanal era feito pelos latoeiros, as peles eram de cabra, e o aperto feito através de cordas.
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The old village of Miranda was raised to the category of city and diocese in 1545.
King José divided the territory between Bragança and Miranda, but the obvious poverty of the latter made the bishopric definitely settle in Bragança, in 1870, under the title of Bragança and Miranda Diocese.
The old Miranda do Douro Cathedral followed the decay of this locality and in the last centuries there were no significant works made at the church.
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