Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil as a colony. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades, repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year, Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986. To be updated
May 5th 2008Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto Buena noite!!
Hello everyone!! So sorry to only be getting on here now to let you know how all is going!! We have just been having way too much fun!
All was good with the flight..it didn,t see ... [full story]
April 23rd 2008Europe » Portugal » Alentejo » Évora “A church made of bone!?” I exclaimed. “Yes, and tastefully done too,” came Ralph’s reply. The bus taking both of us from the city of Palmyra in Syria continued to rumb ... 26 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Sintra Went on a day trip to Sintra today. Sintra is a town about 30kms away. We got the train which was a bargain €1.65 each way. Why aren't trains at home this cheap?
We visited a really cool castl ... 4 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon I am on holiday with Laura again! This time we are in Lisbon in Portugal. We have spent the time wandering about and seeing the sights. It is very hilly here compared to Cambridge which means Laura ha ... 2 photos[full story]
May 2nd 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos
Dear friends of Maddy,
I decided to publish this after the interest in the McCanns seemed to be freshly in peoples minds. I hope that those of you who are still interested in helping to find made ... [full story]
April 28th 2008Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon We are in Lisbon! It is very nice but very hilly so we are exhausted! We never thought we would appreciate the flatness of East Anglia. Due to the hilliness of Lisbon and the fact that most of the str ... 4 photos[full story]
May 1st 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira Hello everyone!!
Greece was amazing and now I'm in Portugal until Friday!
There are 4 of us and we are staying in a resort on the beach. We spend our whole day at the pool and it's so nice to jus ... [full story]
February 9th 2008Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto
Our bus arrived at Porto bus station early afternoon. The ‘bus station’ was basically a big shed which was half way through being renovated. There being no signs in sight to direct us ... 35 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon My friend Damir was right when he said I'd never want to leave Portugal! Just got back from the long weekend and Portugal was by far my favorite trip I've taken. I saw a total of 8 cities and had an u ... 26 photos[full story]
April 26th 2008Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon Happy Birthday to Kim's little sister Lisa! She is 19 today!
Due to our late night, we slept in a little (8:30 instead of 6:30). This visit to Lisbon, Portugal is longer than when we went to P ... [full story]
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