Photos from Coimbra, Central, Portugal, Europe - page 18

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Quinta da Regaleira: view of Royal Palace from the gardens

Quinta da Regaleira: bottom of the well

Quinta da Regaleira: top of the "initiates' well"

Quinta da Regaleira: manor from the gardens

Lisbon castle: ramparts, again

Lisbon castle: ramparts

Lisbon castle view

View of the miradouro (scenic view park) near my bairro alto lodgings from Lisbon castle

View of the Chiado district from Lisbon castle

Two inhabitants of Lisbon castle

Lisbon castle: fountain

View of the 25 April bridge from Lisbon castle

Former monastery

In the shade

A cascading fountain

Recreated Roman Fountain

Goodbye, Parque Verde do Mondego! We'll miss you

Coimbra at night

We drank the last beer from our fridge on the train to Lisbon

Our friends at the restaurant

On our last night in Coimbra we had dinner with our friends at our favorite Chinese restaurant

This picture just makes me happy

We had a goodbye dinner with Jason's class

Jason fed some beer to the guy on the sign

We went to a festival in the park and they were giving away free hats

We took one last daytrip to Porto with our friends

I finally ate sardines in Portugal

Barbecue at Jason's classmate's house

Dinner at our friends' house

Getting approval of our wine choice from a *real* Portuguese person

Europe map

Student taking a little nap on the street corner

Coimbra at night

The street after the parade

Part of the solution; part of the problem

History students' float - a castle, complete with cannons

"FEUC OFF BOLONHA"

Bullhorns are fun

Each float was led by 'quartanistas' with top hats and canes

Melting in the sun

They have a slight grafitti problem in the Bairro Alto in Lisbon

At Sao Jorge Castle in Lisbon

At Cabo de Roca, the westernmost point of continental Europe

Obidos wall

Two Jasons reflected in the Peugeot

Kid playing at Batalha Monastery

Tom with his fancy Pinocchio dessert

Bacalhau, or salt cod, for sale at Carrefour

Sunny day near our apartment in Coimbra

Se Velha in Coimbra

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Brief history of Portugal

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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 a...more history

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