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Example sentences for: joão
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Nearby, the sumptuous 16th-century Igreja de São Roque features a lavish baroque chapel of São João Baptista (St. John the Baptist) and a small museum of sacred art.
There is also a room devoted to the battle of Aljubarrota (see page 17); exhibits include the shirt worn by João I during the fray.
A new alliance with England was sealed in the 1386 Treaty of Windsor; a year later João of Avis married Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt.
Tucked behind Rua João Tavira and Rua da Carreira is Praça do Município, the town’s dignified main square, with a mosaic of black-and-white stones and pretty white buildings on three sides.
At one end is the spectacular baroque Biblioteca Joanina (library), constructed in 1720 with João V’s Brazilian wealth (also instrumental in building the great library at Mafra; see page 42).
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