Physician, herbalist and naturalist
Garcia d'Orta Festival
Castelo de Vide
Evoking the ephemeris after the 450 years
since his death (1568-2018).
Orta the Philosopher
Shines in one and another language,
when the use demands it.
Eminent physician and
at the same time philosopher
Universal Orta
Garcia d'Orta had enormous influence on the progress
of convenience and drugs in the 16th and 17th centuries.
New "colóquios dos Simples" in
the Alentejo (October/November 2018)
Conference on convenient and drugs from India.
Held in 1563 in Goa,
Orta is the first European to present about
botanical characteristics,
origin and therapeutic properties of many
medicinal plants
Camões Praise
"... great volume
That waits in light coming out
There is a new fire in medicine
Discovering certain secrets
All old antigens covered"
for CPS, GACN, República Portuguesa, Centro de Ciéncia do cafe