Exquisitely woven Vasco da Gama tapestries, describing his visit to India, were conceived as a document of an empire to ...

Vasco da Gama arrived in Kozhikode (then Calicut ... was accomplished in 1488 by Portuguese explorer and mariner Bartolomeu Dias, who travelled along the coast of West Africa (now South Africa).

In 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously ...

Inside the Portuguese chapel in Malindi along Baobab Beach Road. It was built by Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama and some of his sailors in 1498 while on their way to India. St. Francis Xavier ...

The Vasco da Gama pillar in Malindi is perhaps the most prominent physical reminder of the Portuguese influence in Kenya. The town dates back 600 years ago and the Vasco da Gama pillar remains one ...

It was opened in 1998 and named in honour of the 500 th anniversary of Portuguese explorer, Vasco Da Gama's discovery of a sea route between Europe and India in 1498. The Vasco de Gama bridge has ...