Under the heat of the warm sun on a late summer Saturday, I left my house in Vila Real and travelled the one hundred kilometers that separate it from Porto, Portugal’s second biggest city, where a demonstration of the Fifteenth of October Movement was supposed to take place. Here in my hometown,..
Maria Joana Gomes
Maria Joana Gomes was born in Vila Real, Portugal in 1978. She graduated in 2002 with a degree in Portuguese literature. Since 2007, she has been working on her PhD in medieval historiography.