Web Pages of General Interest

• The University of Minho's Portugal Home Page and Portugal page.
• The Lonely Planet's Destination Portugal.
• Pedro Coutinho's Portuguese Connection.
• The Ideamen's collection of home pages about Portugal.
• Portugal Terra Santa
• Portugal Connected.
• Telepac Home Page.
• Most of my family's roots go back to the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores.
• Moo-saico is a multi-lingual virtual community in Portugal. Paulo Ferreira mentions that it is the most populous virtual community in Portugal and supports interaction in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian.
• Based on a suggestion by Miguel Reis, I have been surfing around Alternet, a quite interesting site with diverse links to Portuguese web resources.

The Portuguese Language

• Adelardo's Portuguese Language Page outlines the history and global distribution of Portuguese.
• Dario Teixeira's Portuguese mini-lessons (from the University of Minho).
• The Languages for Travellers page includes sound clips of a host of languages (including, of course, Portuguese).
• The online English/Portuguese Dictionary.
• The Amazon.Com online bookstore lists an impressive number of books in or about the Portuguese language.
• For pearls of wisdom in Portuguese, read Cristina Lopes' web page of Portuguese Expressions (with translations). Dress up your e-mail ".sig" file!

Genealogy and History of the Portuguese in the U.S.

• The Portuguese Historical Museum in San Jose, California.
• Joe Sanches' LUSAWEB contains historical and genealogical information about the Portuguese in North America.
• And here's a brief history of the Portuguese in Hawaii.

Portuguese Recipes

• Adelardo's recipes from Brazil (in Portuguese).
• There are also Brazilian recipes (in English) available in Pedro's Kitchen.
• My collection of Hawaiian-style Portuguese recipes.

Searching for More Information?

If you wish to search for sites specifically in or about Portugal, and can speak a little Portuguese, then let me recommend SAPO, the Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses. This is an excellent site similar in format to Yahoo.

Thanks to Martin Bruckman at the University of Aveiro, this page is now listed in SAPO.