Monday 7 April 2014

Portugal - Sources of Historic and Current Cartographic Material

The address for the National Library of Portugal is:

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Campo Grande, 83
1749-081 Lisboa
Portugal

Tel.351 21 798 20 00
Fax 351 21 798 21 38
email: bn@bnportugal.pt
(Nearest Metro: Entrecampos)

There is an English language web-site here:

http://www.bnportugal.pt/index.php?lang=en

Here is an extract from the index of cartographic holdings, which appear quite extensive and it appears digital copies can be downloaded:

purl.pt/index/cart/purl/PT/750-799.html

Unfortunately, this section is only in Portuguese.
Current cartographic activities in Portugal are handled by the military - Instituto Geográfico do Exército.:

See: http://www.igeoe.pt/index.php?id=1