Day of Portugal and the Poet Camões, annually on 10 June

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Portugal Day , officially Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities , is the National Day of Portugal celebrated annually on 10 June and celebrated by Portuguese people throughout the world.
It commemorates the death on 10 June 1580 of Luís de Camões, a poet and national literary icon.

Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões".

Os Lusíadas is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões (c. 1524/5 – 1580) and first published in 1572.
It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese literature and the work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524).
Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastic interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks

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