The Military Academy (MA) is a public military higher education institution committed to teaching, development and research and community support activities. The Military Academy’s major objective is training officers for the permanent staff of the different branches and services of the Army and National Republican Guard (GNR). 
The courses are given in a military environment, aimed at transmitting all traits of behavior based on military component, moral and civic education, and the awareness that Cadets are simultaneously students and soldiers.

Amadora is a Portuguese city belonging to the District of Lisbon. The municipality is bordered by the municipality northeast of Odivelas, southeast of Lisbon, to the south and west by west and north Oeiras and Sintra.  

Near of Amadora (24 minuts by train) is the village of Sintra. Owing to its 19th-century Romantic architecture and landscapes, it has become a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon. In addition to the Sintra Mountains and Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, the parishes of the town of Sintra are dotted by royal retreats, estates, castles and buildings from the 8th-9th century, in addition to many buildings completed between the 15th and 19th century, including the Castelo dos Mouros, the Pena National Palace and the Sintra National Palace, resulting in its classification by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1995.