Castelo Branco (disambiguation)
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Places

  • Castelo Branco District, a district in Portugal
  • Castelo Branco Municipality, a municipality in Portugal
  • Castelo Branco (Horta)
    Castelo Branco (Horta)
    Castelo Branco is the southern civil parish on the island Faial, in the Azores; part of the municipality of Horta. This agricultural community is primarily known for the location of the Central Group's first airport, Horta Airport.-History:...

    , a parish in the municipality of Horta, Portugal
  • Castelo Branco (Mogadouro), a parish in the municipality of Mogadouro
    Mogadouro
    Mogadouro is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 760.65 km² and a total population of 10,792 inhabitants. The seat is the town of Mogadouro.-History:...

    , Portugal

People

  • Camilo Castelo Branco
    Camilo Castelo Branco
    Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho , was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books . His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal...

    , a Portuguese novelist
  • Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
    Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
    Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian military leader and politician.He was President of Brazil, as a military dictator, after the 1964 coup d'etat...

    , former President of Brazil
  • João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, a physician better known as Amato Lusitano
    Amato Lusitano
    João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus , was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus, Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus, Realdo Colombo and William Harvey, he is credited as making a discovery in the circulation...


Other

  • Castelo Branco cheese
    Castelo Branco cheese
    Castelo Branco is a cheese named after the city of the same name in Portugal, the chief city of the district where it is produced. The cheese is made from milk produced by either a goat or a ewe, and has a soft texture. Typically, the cheese takes 40 days to mature when made with goat's milk, and...

     is a cheese from that district in Portugal.
  • Rodovia Castelo Branco
    Rodovia Castelo Branco
    Rodovia Presidente Castelo Branco is a tollway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was first opened on November 10, 1968, by, then, the Governor of the state of São Paulo, Abreu Sodré...

    , a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
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