Google Doodle Celebrating Portugal National Day 2023 – Today’s Doodle celebrates Portugal Day, known officially as Dia de Camões, de Portugal e das Comunidades Portuguesas (Day of Camões, Portugal, and the Portuguese Communities). Portugal celebrates National Day not on the day it announced independence from Spain, but instead on a day that honours an influential Portuguese poet, Luís de Camões. In honour of the country, traditional Portuguese tiles are featured in today’s Doodle artwork.
- The first Portugal Day celebration was held in 1880 and it became a national holiday in 1919.
- Official festivities are performed in a different Portuguese city each year with parades of marching bands, baton twirlers, and military troops.
- Orchestras play patriotic music, and fireworks illuminate the sky as night falls.
- Happy National Day, Portugal!