sentences:  Their highest achievement is reaching the semifinals of the Taça de Portugal in 1964.They had defeated Ferroviário Lourenço Marques in the quarterfinals, the highest a Portuguese colony club ever reached in the Portuguese Cup (and only because the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar allowed them to play as a means of demonstrating that Portugal's African possessions were provinces and not colonies).The headquarters of the club is in the historic manorhouse of Dona Violante do Canto.