Sete Lágrimas
Lyvro da Ilha de Mactan
More that 500 years after the departure of Fernão de Magalhães (1480-1521) for the first circumnavigation of the globe (1519-1522), Lyvro de Ilha de Mactan shares the voyage of Magalhães and Elcano and its sounds. The fleet made a stopover in the Canary Islands, reaching the coast of South America. After many misfortunes, he entered the waters of the South Sea, baptizing this ocean as Pacific in contrast to the difficulties encountered in the Strait. The journey proceeded always with great difficulty. He looked at the sky and was the first European to identify two irregular dwarf satellite galaxies of our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye only in the southern hemisphere and later called “Magellan Clouds”. Magalhães died in battle on Mactan Island, in the Philippines, in 1521, at the hands of Lapu-Lapu (1491-1542), governor of the Island… But this would be another journey, as if Magellan had followed other paths inspired by another science or instinct…
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Free entry, subject to space capacity and upon prior ticket collection at the venue, on the day of the show, from 8pm (maximum two tickets per person).
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