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Portugal Porto: Ribeira old town / Portugal

Ribeira from the Ponte Dom Luis I (Oporto) Terreiro Sé Since we enter the heart of Porto's oldest district, the medieval quarter of Barredo, a confusing maze narrow streets, stairways and alleys to reach Ribeira , the area on the banks of the River Douro and Porto's oldest district.
Despite the recent renovation, is still a lively area revolves around the Cais de Ribeira quay, where there is a lively market. To the west, the Praça da Ribeira, the central plaza, is lined with old houses from where the steep streets up to the newer parts of the city.
The old part of the districts of Ribeira, Barredo and Miragaia are surrounded by old walls Fernandinas. In 1996 the historic center of Oporto was declared a World Heritage Site.
From the Ponte Dom Luis I, two levels, you get a great view: you have to walk through the first level to get to the warehouse at the port of Vila Nova de Gaia. To get to the Casa do Infante, supposed birthplace, in 1394, of Henry the Navigator, you go west from the Ribeira Square and walk up the Rua da Alfândega. Ribeira
retains a medieval atmosphere that is seen in each of its buildings and alleys. A stroll through this part of Porto has one of the most picturesque of this historic city, passing by traditional boats (Rabelo) anchored in the river and you can see from the old houses of multiple colors or different docks.

Terreiro medieval tower next to the Sé (Porto)

"A little history:

The first documents we have of Oporto dating from the fifth century The first urban center in the eighth century BC Later, the Romans settled in Oporto as a stop en la ruta entre Braga y Lisboa. Fue ocupada por los visigodos entre el año 540 y 716 cuando fue conquistada por los árabes que permanecieron hasta el siglo XI. En la edad media fue la capital del condado de "Portucale" que viene de unir Portus (actual Oporto) y Cale (actual Vila Nova de Gaia). Este condado perteneció al reino de León hasta el año 1143, año en el que pasó a formar parte del nuevo reino de Portugal con Alfonso Henriques como primer monarca.
Durante la era de los Descubrimientos Oporto creció y se desarrolló. Por aquel entonces, Portugal era el eje de Europa en lo que a comercio se refiere y sus puertos era la base de sus barcos y mercancías. En el siglo XV, la ciudad era uno de los centros de construcción de buques más importantes de Portugal y también cuna de muchos navegantes. Portugal recobró finalmente su independencia tras haber estado bajo el dominio del rey Felipe de España. Durante el siglo XVIII, esta próspera ciudad pasó a ser todo un monumento y, gracias a los Almadas, se modernizó. En el siglo XIX, Oporto fue la cuna de importantes poetas y escultores como Garret y Soares dos Reis. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, se eligió el primer gobierno republicano de Portugal. Juan I y Felipa de Lancaster contrajeron matrimonio en esta ciudad en 1387. Dicho matrimonio simbolizó la alianza militar más antigua del mundo entre Inglaterra y Portugal, todavía hoy vigente a través de la OTAN.
En 2001 Oporto compartió in Rotterdam cultural capital of Europe as a renewed attempt to get out of the decadence in which lies the strong economic crisis in Portugal. For this event, the auditorium was built "Casa da Música" in Boavista, symbol of the capital [ Source: virtual Porto and Oporto Guide ].

Igreja Sao Lourenço dos Grilos (Oporto)

»Buildings and places of interest :
" Barredo Neighborhood: The medieval town that lies at the foot of Terreiro Sé is a maze of narrow streets, stairways and alleys leading down to Ribeira, as the Truths or Escadas das Escadas Barredo do and where we can find the remains of the ancient church Santa Ana embedded between dwellings. In the Largo da Torre is located Vandoma Barredo and the Praça Dom João I the curious Painel Ribeira Negra. In Largo Professor Abel Salazar is the Casa do Beco dos Redemoinhos.
"Igreja Sao Lourenço dos Grilos (Largo do Colegio): All of San Lourenço dos Grilos is formed by the church and convent. Building started in 1573 under the direction of Baltazar Álvares and Baltazar Álvares project commissioned by the Jesuit brothers to be used as a seminary. Was not completed until the eighteenth century. The church is baroque style facade stands out distinctly Mannerist and inside the main altar, neoclassical, with a representation of Jesus Christ in the heart of St. Augustine work of João Baptista Ribeiro. Include two side altars with one panel of the Sacred Heart, the work of Marques de Oliveira and another with a tapestry depicting the Lord at the Pillar work António Manuel de Moura.
Crossing a wooden door to the left of the church access the Museum of Sacred Art and Archaeology Porto. stands as a museum of sacred art but has little collection of antiquities. In the upstairs room shows signs of various stone with high ceilings set out in the statues of saints, religious jewelry and religious objects.

Praça do Ribeira (Oporto)

" At one end of the area is the Plaza de Ribeira , former commercial center of the city is opposite the Chapel of Our Lady of O, where spring begins end Luis I Bridge In the center of the town is Ribeira Cube made of bronze and surrounded by cafés y donde finaliza la empinada Rua de Sao Joâo, teniendo enfrente el Muro dos Cobertos da Ribeira, junto al río, y a la izquierda la fascinante Rua da Fonte Taurina, ideal para comer en sus típicos restaurantes.
» Casa do Infante (Rua Nova da Alfândega, 10): Construida originariamente en el año 1325 por orden de D. Alfonso IV con el objeto de establecer aquí la Aduana Real donde se controlaban las mercancías que llegaban a Oporto venidas desde toda Europa, la Casa do Infante adquirió este nombre al nacer en ella Enrique el Navegante, una de las figuras más importantes del inicio de la Era de los Descubrimientos. Esta casa, que fue la residencia donde se alojaban las visitas oficiales of the royal house, is now a small museum displaying the remains of archaeological excavations and floor tiles that once made up this building, which was rebuilt and expanded several times. The interpretive center of the monument is divided into four thematic areas: Roman occupation, Royal Customs, Infante Don Enrique and Mint.

Ponte Dom Luis I from Cais da Ribeira (Oporto)

»Ponte Dom Luis I : The best known of the six bridges linking the port and waterfront Cais da Porto with Vila Nova de Gaia. Construction began in 1881 on the remains of the missing Ponte Pensil and whose pillars are preserved along the same in the Cais de Guindais. It opened in 1886 with Belgian engineer project Théodophile Seyring, a disciple of Gustave Eiffel, in fact the architectural style of the iron bridge reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower. It has two floors, the upper 392 meters long and less than 174 meters. Draws attention to the great iron arch at its center. We used 3000 tons of iron in its construction.
"Rua Infante Dom Henrique: 47-53 numbers correspond to a medieval house donated by the merchants Joao I and then converted in the first bag Oporto. Was also "the English factory" (XVIII century), designed by the British consul John Whitehead as a meeting of British businessmen and exporters of port wine. In the same street is the Igreja de Sao Nicalau .
"Funicular Guindais: The funicular in Porto, better known as Two Guindais, is an elegant and unconventional move between two levels of the city. Ribeira communicates, on the banks of the river, and the district of Batangas, situated on the top of Oporto. During this short tour you can see Luis I Bridge, the medieval walls of Oporto (Walls Fernandinas) and the entire old town along the Douro. Its construction was carried out in 1891 and renovated in 1994.
"" Bibliography: »Brochures Porto Tourist Office (March 2011)» Portugal (Key Guides) (Editorial Espasa)
»Links: " Guide Oporto (Source text) "Porto Tourism " Camara Municipal do Porto »About Portugal " Oporto Guide (2)

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Les moyens de transport à Dijon

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all, how are you? How are things in Argentina (or wherever you are you reading these lines)?

In this post I will comment a little Dijon situation as regards transport. You might think it's an entry without much sense, but it is so different from Buenos Aires or another city you know, I think at the end of the entry will think it's interesting. And if not ... well, I'm sorry for having caused the loss of 5 minutes it took to read these lines.

I know I wrote a little about everything what ride a bike ... and may not be the last to do so. It is very important in my life in Dijon: I go to school every day, I shop, I go to parties or meetings that organisms, especially in cycling.

The city of Dijon is not very large. Has a center, and has what might be called the suburbs. All this is called "Grand Dijon." And then, next to the city, there are other small towns, which in my view also Dijon. I live (or lived, since at this moment that I write, I am no longer there) in the north of the city, on the edge of one of these small towns surrounding called St. Apollinaire.

In my last days I did a bike tour with a German friend throughout the city and went from the North where I live, to the south where there is a great park to go after the north-west, where this lake Kir. All this in one day. To see that the distances are not the same as in other countries.

Dijon is so small that there are only buses. The bus network, we should not belittle however, is very complete and very good. The buses are great and very good quality. They are a bit slow, as it somehow. Fulfill their schedule, not deny it, but they are so slow sometimes. Not compared with the groups in Argentina that go so fast sometimes forget that even when people stop at bus stops.

One can pay for credits cards and can travel as long as you want. Then one gets everywhere (buses are usually three or more doors) and go. But you must buy a ticket an hour, which costs one euro. Is one hour from the moment you validate it. That time begins to run. And you can get off and ride whenever you want on the lines you want, for an hour.

drivers get on very often to see if everyone has a ticket a day. Otherwise the fine is 50 euros. The people do not want much to the drivers. In a letter read stop "I prefer to be controlling unemployment." That is why one has much freedom, everywhere to ride whenever and others, but better to have a day ticket. Once I get on without paying. But really if I grabbed was 50 euros. Have to travel 50 times without one to grab it worthwhile. So I never did, always bought my ticket. Either way, traveling by bus was not something I did many times.

Finally, a detail that caught my attention, all buses have cameras that film people. Thus once at a bus stop got someone from the company and went down to a drunkard who had fallen asleep in a chair who knows a few hours had been. And again we came up with 40 students because we went to a party, two stops later 3 men boarded the company faced and serious ill and took out the bottles were students.

Anyway, I hope that this brief glimpse has taught them something about how you live around here. To me it's all very interesting.

I send a big salute, thank you for reading the blog and keep in touch.

À plus,

Guille

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Sports: ping pong, tennis and badminton

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This entry may be brief or not, I explain my sport and the university in general not to seem so self-centered (MIS activities ...).

In college there is a sports center called SUAPS, do not ask me what the acronym means because I do not know. Although now that I think could find out a little. I tried

Badminton classes but although there is plenty of room to play, as it is a sport unisex, there are many people and almost no place. Also falls into a very bad day at a worse time: Friday 19:00 to 20:30. Then I can do almost anything because I am very tired. They said that with Badminton Ice Hockey are two sports that consume more calories. not really interest me too, I never did sports simply because they burn calories, but because I want to or because I have fun. It was only a passing reference, in order ...

Of course I found tennis classes, which are very good. They are very early on Saturday and over. Anyway, the tennis I make the effort and get up early. Two sessions an hour and a half and sometimes we can be playing a little more, until now I'm playing an average of 3 and 3 ½ hours. More bike to come and go, to be about 8 kilometers , I'm doing a lot of sports.

There are "classes" of ping pong. I say "class" because it is simply going to play and nothing else. The teacher is there never tells us anything. But hey, there are two intense hours of sport. Also the place where play is next to where I play tennis, because I also go and back by bicycle.

And finally I will add the topic of cycling, although it sounds repetitive. I bike everywhere. Dijon is a very small town. To go to college and I usually come by bicycle, which will be about 20 minutes. The bus costs 1 euro here, which may seem expensive, but it is not. In other cities the price is much higher.

A Badmignton went only once and was not more. Too tired to play sports all day, and you have to study and work ... and of course leave a little on Friday night. And ping pong and tennis was pretty regular until the end of the year, where unfortunately the exams, presentations and other responsibilities left me already pretty tired. In addition to the snow and others make the journey in bike was very difficult. Not impossible, but it left me exhausted itself, and in the cold, I never felt like making another sport to take a coffee.

Anyway, that's all for this post, I thank you as always to read the blog (but do not write very often) and we're seeing,

Greetings! Guille

ps: if you wonder why the photo. So far I've always put pictures of France. Well ... it is France ... Cécile de France: P. ... French actress and I saw three films ... very nice addition:), voilà pourquoi ....

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University, the Master, classes in French and even more so ... Sorry for delay

And finally I started with the master.

is true, I started writing this post like a month ago or so, at least, because we're already in January ... for at least, say, about 2 or 3 months ... but at least I'm finishing writing , which is what counts ... is not it? Anyway, I wanted to dedicate a post to explain that is the master, the materials and that sort of thing. Since the master is the reason I'm here.

First of all, it's very nice to be a student again. In other words, never stopped studying ... because as soon as I finished school I went to Germany, and the back (and starting the thesis) followed with my German and English courses and started (in the year 2007) with my French classes. Nor did I give exams because I paid in subsequent years international exams such language. Of course, a language test is not the same as one on a particular subject. But I never lost l'habitude. (Now I can finally use French expressions that always look good in a text, it makes me happy: D, as in German, not only is not good (for the rest, I mean, I love), and also would not understand if say that "I never lost the Gewohnheit ).

In the master I have many subjects, and are distributed throughout the week at different times, which I'm almost 100% busy with classes. I have German and English courses for each language course I have a translation, speaking and writing. The issue of translation is other than English, English and German is not German-English, but it is English-French and German-French. With which during translation classes, my mental efforts are quite high. Then

I have courses in accounting, marketing, information technology, international trade among others. Also I have a practice field with a company in the city of Dijon, which I touched it with a rescheduling of other companies, called, creatively, Dijon Auto Racing, which has a website, you can visit.

addition, I signed a supplementary course in French at an institute attached to the university called CIEF, where I stood at the highest level, and fell short ... unfortunately, the level of people is very low , but the teacher makes the class interesting and fun, which does not bother me, and are more courses in French, ... is fine.

Besides, I play sports (which I will describe it best in another post) as an extra activity, tennis and ping pong. Here sports are all free when you're a student ... but as I said, I will discuss that later.

I am also teaching courses in English, as I did in Germany, this time on my own. In Passau, was working for an agency of the university, here simply as an independent teacher. Also talk about this later, but I want to give a snapshot of the activities that took to fill every minute of my time, and maximize.

also took an extra field called Infographie, in which the teacher teaches us to use all the tools of photoshop. Thanks to this program could develop a brochure for the company I named Dijon Auto Racing few paragraphs above, as part of the mission, and distorted pictures were probably already on my facebook. It's a really magical program ... you can do what you want if you have the knowledge.

Thanks to all these activities, I was busy from Monday to Saturday almost full time. Leaving on Sunday as a day to rest, and order a bit the other day final.

Well I'm catching up with the tickets, I hope they have fun ... any questions, feedback, intrigue, question or issue shot, please let me know. J

Many greetings to all, we keep in touch, and thanks for reading the blog. : D

Guille

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Guimaraes (Portugal)

Guimaraes (Portugal)

Guimaraes is a medieval city that has its roots in the remote X century At this time the Countess Mumadona Dias, widow of Hermenegildo Mendes, ordered the construction of a monastery which became a center of attraction and led to the establishment of a population.
At the same time, and to defend the population, Mumadona built a castle nearby, on the hill, thereby creating a second point of settlement. To joining the two nuclei created Santa Maria Street.
later became the monastery school and acquired a great importance due to the privileges and gifts to kings and nobles was granted. It became an important pilgrimage to the shrine of attending believers everywhere. The people at that time surrounded by a defensive wall, expanded and organized.
Meanwhile, the mendicant orders Guimaraes installed in helping shape the physiognomy of the city, "Over time the two poles merge into one after the fifteenth century and the walled city will have few changes. Still be built some churches, convents and palaces along the creation of the Place de la Misericordiade late seventeenth century, but its overall structure will not be significantly altered.
will from the nineteenth century, with new urban ideas of hygiene and symmetry, the people, raised to town in 1853 by Queen Mary II, will undergo its biggest change. It utorizará and promote the collapse of the walls. spaces will be built Carmo (Martins Sarmento today) and Condessa de Juncal, will create great streets and avenues. However, almost everything is done in a controlled manner, thus allowing the preservation of the magnificent Historical Center. Guimaraes
adds to its historical importance, an incentive more with the appointment of European Capital of Culture 2012.

Statue of Afonso Henriques, Castle and Chapel of San Miguel

»Buildings and places of interest :
" Castelo São Mamede, Guimarães Castle is located just outside the old town, in the Monte cans, known as the "sacred hill." It is classified as a National Monument since 1910.
was built in the tenth century by the Countess Mumadona Days to defend the monastery he founded the attacks of the Moors and Normans. It was fought the Battle of São Mamede (June 24, 1128), related to the origins of Portugal as a nation. It was expanded in the next century by Count Henry of Burgundy, which he established in his court, and later during the reign of Joao Dinis and I. From the fifteenth century have left defensive role and had different uses as a prison policy or barn. After years of neglect it was restored and opened to the public for his visit in 1940.
The castle consists of seven square towers with battlements built on the rock, with particular emphasis on the Torre del Homenaje, 28 meters high, which can be raised. Can be covered perimeter through an upper walkway around the courtyard.
"Chapel of San Miguel : Construction start of the twelfth century, possibly by Earl D. Henrique, in Romanesque style, small in size and architectural simplicity. It has great historical symbolism by binding to the period of the foundation of nationality and tradition that D. Afonso Henriques was baptized in it. Inside the floor is covered with graves attributed to noble warriors attached to the founding of Portuguese nationality. It is classified as a National Monument.
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Dukes of Braganza and Castillo de San Mamede

"Manor of the Dukes of Bragança : House stately home of the fifteenth century, ordered built by the Earl D. Henrique, Conde de Bragança future. The bastard son of King Joao I, and you will be home with his second wife, Constance de Noronha. Very poor since the sixteenth century, the rebuilding began in 1937 and lasted until 1959, when it opens to the public as a museum, with a spoliation dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Existing collections, highlights all the four copies of the tapestries of Pastrana, the design is attributed to the painter Nuno Gonçalves (XV century), for the valuable contribution that represents the history of the Portuguese discoveries, others recount some of the steps of the conquests in North Africa. It also has collections of weapons dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth and collections of furniture from the period after discovery. The building is considered a National Monument.
"Convento de Santo Antonio Capuchin : Built in 1842 as a hospital cappuccino is currently engaged in museum displaying art and cultural objects. The imposing building stands out for its courts and cloisters, the church and its magnificent eighteenth-century sanctuary. Directly opposite Largo is the Martins Sarmento (former Carmo) which features a Renaissance chafariz three batteries built in 1853 by Gonçalo Lopes and teacher initially placed in Toural to spend on in 1873 to its present location in front of the house where he died great archaeologist named to the plaza.
"Calle de Santa María : It was one of the first roads opened in Guimaraes, as it was intended to be a jack shaft between the convent founded by Mumadona, located on the bottom, and the castle located on top . Because this name appears in documents of the twelfth century, though its top has the name of infestations. Along this street are several witnesses architecture of its past: the Convent of Santa Clara, Casa del Arco, the House of Peixoto and gothic House Valadares.

Convento de Santa Clara (City of Guimaraes)

"Convento de Santa Clara : Current city of Guimaraes, was founded in the fifteenth century by the canon of College Baltasar de Andrade Oliveira. It has a Baroque facade in the center of which stands the statue of Santa Clara. The two-storey cloister is the classical type. Its rich chapel was used since the nineteenth century as a section of Alberto Sampaio Museum.
'Plaza Santiago : According to tradition, James brought a statue of the Virgin Mary at Guimaraes and placed in a pagan temple and a square was renamed Santiago. The square still retains its medieval features. It was on its outskirts where they installed the Franks who came to Portugal as troops of Count D. Henrique. A small XVII century chapel dedicated to St. James was demolished in the late nineteenth century.

Our Lady of Oliveira and Salado monument

"Largo de Oliveira : Here is a magnificent architectural group formed by the Church of Our Lady of Oliveira, the monument and the ancient manors Salado in the municipality.
The Church of Our Lady of Oliveira was ordered rebuilt by D. Joao I, in the late fourteenth century, following a promise that the king made to Our Lady of Oliveira's victory Aljubarrota. Its architect was the master Joao Garcia de Toledo. The temple has a tower attached dated 1513 in which the lowest is the mortuary chapel of the parents of the prior Dieogo Pinheiro, rebuilt the tower. The main chapel was enlarged in the late seventeenth century under the patronage of D. Pedro II, whose arms are in the vault. The main altarpiece is from the second half of the XVIII and the throne belongs to the seventeenth century has support neoclassical. There are two panels on the throne attributed to the painter Pedro Alexandrino and in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament altar there is a silver and a silver front also, the work of goldsmiths of Guimaraes.
The monument Salado is a 'porch' Gothic erected in the reign of Alfonso IV to commemorate the Battle of Salado (1340). The cruise made in 1342 was offered by Pero Esteves, Guimaraes businessman based in Lisbon.
The construction of country houses in the municipality was initiated at time D. Joao I, in the late fourteenth century. At the beginning of the seventeenth century it was remodeled by architect Joao Lopes de Amorim.
" Alberto Sampaio Museum (Calle Alfredo Guimaraes): Created in 1928 to house the collections of the late College of Our Lady of Oliveira and other churches and convents in the region. It is situated in the place where the Countess Mumadona (tenth century) set up a monastery, which was born around the town of Guimaraes. The spaces occupied belonged to the College and have historical value: the medieval cloister and the rooms that surround it, the former home of priorate and chapter house. Has important collections of sculpture (medieval and Renaissance), gold (noted for its Romanesque chalice Sancho I), processional crosses, a silver altar from the late Gothic XIV century or armor Joao I in the Battle of Aljubarrota.
" Mercy Church: Built in the late sixteenth century Renaissance style by local architects and Joao Lopes Gonçalo Lopes de Amorim, has a monumental altarpiece of the late eighteenth century large sculptural force. Nearby stands the house Lobo Machado, a beautiful Rococo facade, and today houses the Commercial and Industrial Association of Guimaraes.

Toural Square

"Toural Square : Considered today as the heart of the city was in the seventeenth century a place outside the walls near the main gate of the town, where the show was performed in cattle and other products. The public garden was opened in 1878 and for a time housed the statue of D. Afonso Henriques replaced today by a colorful artistic source. Opposite is the church of San Pedro , commissioned in 1737, and architectural simplicity.
"Paio Galvao on the street is the Martins Sarmento Archaeological Museum, founded in 1885 and belonging to society of the same name, and Santo Domingo church, temple, a Gothic structure, built in the late fourteenth century, with a Baroque portal (1770) and the main chapel enlarged around 1774. He was part of the convent of Santo Domingo, ancient medieval building that was destroyed in the late nineteenth century.
"On the street Don Joao I, old exit to Porto, is the monument to Joao I . sixteenth century work, which Cruise is a magnificent four-poster renaissance. There is also the Third Order of St. Dominic, nineteenth century building.
"Church of San Francisco : Gothic Temple root, very altered over time, it was mainly during the eighteenth century had a profound remodeling the porch and just keeping the head. Has in its main chapel the most notable altarpiece Joanin of Guimaraes, and other rococo altarpiece that match tiles beginning of the eighteenth century, depicting scenes from the life of San Antonio. The two-storey cloister is Gonçalo Lopes (late XVI).

Church of San Gualter and Penha Mountain in the background

"Church of San Gualter : Designed by architect André Soares launched in the eighteenth century and finished by adding two towers in the mid-nineteenth century by an architect from Oporto. They are also at this time the staircase and balustrade. The altarpiece of the main chapel is of classical inspiration of the late eighteenth century, with paintings that mimic marble. Is dedicated to the patron of the city.
'Palace and Cultural Center Vila Flor (official Web ): Built in the mid eighteenth century by order of the Carvalho family, is decorated with granite statues of the early kings of Portugal. The facade looks onto a garden decorated with a Baroque fountain. Here was the Queen Dona Maria II in 1852 on the occasion of his visit to the city and in 1884 was held and Industrial Exhibition. The palace was restored in 2005, which also Cultural Center was built with the same name.
"" Bibliography: "Brochure Guimaraes Tourist Office (Main source text) (March 2011)» Portugal (Key Guides) (Editorial Espasa)
»Links: " Guimaraes Tourism " Guimaraes Township