Discovering Portugal


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Explore how tiny Portugal played an outsized role in world history. We will examine its fifteenth and sixteenth century maritime expansion and its central role in the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. We will trace Portugal’s rise as the Iberian Peninsula’s only independent kingdom, its global reach from Brazil to Japan, and its later decline into twentieth-century poverty under Europe’s longest dictatorship. We will see how democracy reshaped Portuguese culture and survey its landscape, art, architecture, and food to learn why Americans are flocking there today.

Alison Roberts is a journalist with nearly four decades of experience, reporting in her native UK and later internationally for English-language outlets including the BBC, NPR, and Bloomberg News. Her work has covered politics, finance, sports, and the arts. She has edited or contributed to a dozen guidebooks and provided online updates for Fodor’s, Time Out, and other publishers. Now based in Portugal, she is writing a history of the country and has explored it extensively from north to south.

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6 Session(s)
Weekly - Tue

Location
NA - Online

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Please read:  ONLINE: This course meets online through the Osher Online platform.

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$75.00

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Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
7/7/2026 - 8/11/2026 Weekly - Tue 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online TBD Instructor 

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