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 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 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]
March 10th 2008Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira
At the moment we are taking a day off from biking, and we are staying in a small town called Alvor next to the city Portimao. We have been traveling for about a week, we left from Punta Umbria which ... [full story]
December 7th 2007Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira Travel blog 9 - Sorry for not blogging for last month, but we thought our everyday life might be boring. Understand it probably is, so apologies to all and to let you know we plan to stay in Algarve u ... 7 photos[full story]
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