Miss Portugal
Miss Portugal is an annual national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Portugal.
From the period before the Second World War, Portuguese participants are already handed down in the competitions at Miss Universe 1927 in Galveston (Texas ) Marguerita Bastos Ferrier and 1930 in Rio de Janeiro Fernanda Gonçalves.
Candidates from the Iberian country take part in the elections for the Miss World since 1959, Miss Universe and Miss Europe since 1960 in part. There is the domestic competition so at least since the late 1950s.
Today, there are even two competitions and one each associated organization: Miss Portugal delegated its winners to Miss Universe and Miss Europe, Miss Lusitania, however, Miss World and Miss her Lusitania Turismo for Miss Earth. ( Lusitania is the name of a Roman province that included most of the present-day Portugal and neighboring Spanish regions. )
Winners
Miss Portugal
Since 2005, no longer discharged.