It was in 1959 that Astérix and the rest of the village of unyielding Gauls, who resisted Roman occupation thanks to a magic potion, first appeared in the French magazine Pilote.
Since then, Astérix, always accompanied by his best friend Obelix and his pet hound Dogmatrix, have travelled to every part of the Roman Empire and beyond... all of it? Until this year, Portuguese fans of the series lamented the fact that Lusitania, the territory that corresponds to what is now Portugal, had not yet been visited by these heroes who have enamoured and amused several generations of readers.
