Background: 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.
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]
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]
April 21st 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos Hey Everyone!
So this is sort of my fairwell blog to you all. I am in my last week of classes here in Spain and will leaving in two short weeks. I can“t believe how fast everything is going! I“m l ... 10 photos[full story]
April 3rd 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos When in Portugal, we explored Lisbon (the capital city) for a day/night and a small beach town named Lagos for three. Lisbon is very city like, although it’s definitely not your average city. It ... 81 photos[full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira April 13, 2008
We left leaving Portimao this morning, so it was breakfast and onto the bus for an hour until we arrived in Albufeira, an Arabic influenced town. We were given 5 hours here, so we he ... 9 photos[full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve April 12, 2008
We went to the free breakfast, and it was delish because there were peaches and pineapple and chocolate muffins! Then Julie, Katie, and I headed to the beach. The beaches in Portugal ... 20 photos[full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Tavira April 11, 2008
After getting ready this morning, Julie and I met Katie at the bridge and walked to where we would get on the bus to Portugal. For once in my life I stayed awake on the bus because I ... 10 photos[full story]
July 12th 2007Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos We were very excited to be going to the beach town of Lagos today, after the weather was against us at San Sebastian. Our one and only aim: sit on the beach, swim and generally do nothing.
However ... 9 photos[full story]
April 3rd 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos Wow what a trip! 4 nights at an amazing apartment with everything included as far as cooking untensils, a dishwasher, wash machine (that noone used), stove, oven, hugggge porch to hang out on, 3 bedro ... [full story]
April 3rd 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos Friday... after a 6 hour bus ride we arrived in Lagos at about 10pm. We found our hostal... which was by far the nicest hostal i“ve seen/ stayed in. It was filled with people around our age and there ... [full story]
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