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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.

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By diegocastro
January 5th 2010

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Coimbra

Dias 127 a 149 - Depois de quatro meses viajando, era hora de descansar um pouco. Ficaria em Lisboa por quase três semanas, tempo suficiente para me preparar para a próxima etapa da viagem e matar a saudade de minha família, que me encontraria na capital portuguesa para as festas de fim de ano. Antes disso, porém, uma última parada. Cheguei a Coimbra no dia em que os motoristas de ônibus iniciavam uma greve geral, o que me fez caminhar por mais de meia hora ladeira acima até chegar ao albergue. O frio era intenso, o maior até aquele momento. Comi [View Full Entry]

By Krunch
August 20th 2009

Goodbye Lisboa Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

At Belem

We came back from Obidos and went to the city centre of Lisbon. This time we headed to the district of Belem with its beautiful museum of National Archeology. Belem is most well known for its pastries of Belem, delicious flaky custard tartlets that have been served for over a century. We got it from the most well known café of Antiga Confeitaria de Belem. It’s a nice area with parks to walk around in. As the sun began to set we headed for dinner in a Portuguese restaurant and I had some grilled seafood skewers yummy. We caught one of [View Full Entry]

By cappper
August 9th 2009

Back in the home land Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Praca do Comercio

Sunday Grabbed and over night train from Madrid to Lisbon on Saturday night. I am still Hemorrhaging money and the train ride did not help. My accommodations were already booked in Lisbon so I needed to grab the train but the only spots they had on the train were 1st class sleepers. It was nice that I had my a whole room to myself and a bed for the 10 hour train ride over night. But $212 later my wallet is once again a little lighter. ::Sigh:: Got into Lisbon, slightly delayed, Sunday morning and found my way to the Hostel. [View Full Entry]

By Carly and Jez
August 1st 2009

A glimpse of Portugul; Salema and Lisbon Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Lisbon famous tram

Day 471 (26/7/09) Salema, a tiny fishing village, just past Lagos on the southern Portugese coast and thankfully remains untouched by commerical tourism. After bacon and eggs for breaky we walked to the Salema beach, hired a bed and umbrella for the day and relaxed after a hectic week on the go. We called it a day and retreating to camp for a wine before taking up our hosts recommendation for a delicious dinner of prawns and red snapper at a local restaurant. On our walk back to camp a kind couple offered us a lift .. life savers after just [View Full Entry]

By Isabel og Sveske
July 1st 2009

Portugal er en god oplevelse Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Kaere venner! Nu er de fleste af jer ogsaa snart ferieramte - tillykke!! Jacob og Joy har vi sagt farvel til efter en hyggelig uge paa havet paa evig jagt efter steder at BAAAADE. I Malaga havde vi verdens hurtigste og temmeligt tilfaeldige crew-skift paa en naesten ulovlig kaj. Lars, Trine og Amanda har rejst med os nogle lidt lange dage paa et lidt haeftigt hav, og fik fast grund under foedderne efter en lille uge. Vi moedtes dog i Aqualand i Albufera og havde en skoen dag i rutchebaner og boelgebassiner!! Vi er nu kommet til Portugal, og i dag [View Full Entry]

By Av1
June 27th 2009

Lisbon Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

in castel sao jorge looking out over libon

Hello everyone! Iºm writing this entry as we´re checking out of our hostel in lisbon. we arrived here yesterday night on the overnight train from madrid and hit the ground running. we checked into our hostel and explored the area for the whole day. the best sight was from the top of the castle where you could see some pretty awesome views of the whole city. we had some pretty traditional português food for lunch and indian food for dinner. they all were really good! today we might go to the beach and then weºre headed back to madrid on the [View Full Entry]

By Hawks1972
June 9th 2009

Portugal Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Its howdy doody time, Not really just another one of those rambles for myself about what i did so my brain doesnt forget down the track wel in fact it already has so this could be a very undertailed blog, just donthave the time. To be honest i am finding doing these a bit of a chore at the momment and feel like i am doing them for everyone else rather than myself. Oh i must do my blog its been a while etc insted of just enjoying where i am and whats around me. Okay we traveled to the very [View Full Entry]

By Messy Kasper
June 4th 2009

Exploring Lisbon Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Messy-Kasper on tour

So we made it! Finally, we are currently backpacking Europe and we start of in Lisbon, Portugal. Our travel down here went smooth and we found the "Home" Hostel pretty easily in the center of the old part of lisbon. We took a little walk around in the neighborhood and tried some local wine. Nice to be sitting outside at a street cafe sipping wine (and this time it was actually pleasent being outside, Carol!). Next morning we started touring around Lisbon on our feet. We walking up to the Sao Jorge Castle thats build on one of the hilltops. It [View Full Entry]

By MoveItManning
May 22nd 2009

Get off this bus Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Oh dear. So much hilarious stuff to record, so little time. Yesterday I arrived in Lisbon after taking a night bus from Seville. It was a routine drill--the bus was late, packed with people, and Laurn and I were forced to listen to the sounds of an amorous couple in the row behind us. Par for the course. Around 2 am the bus stops in a town called "Davida" or something like that, so that one lonely passenger can disembark. When the driver gets up and comes to the back to call out a "Meester James," I assume that this fellow [View Full Entry]

By ChloeH
May 18th 2009

Lisbon - the Last Stop Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Oporto street scene

Only a few more days left on the 'real'part of this trip. (The rest of St. Thomas and Austin ae not traveling in the same way). Ready to come home this time. Started to be a bit tired from traveling at the end of Spain. Castles and churches and museums start to blend into each other. At least need a change of scenary from Europe. I hopped over from Spain on a long bus ride to Oporto. After the lack of people who can speak English for conversations in Spain, I decided to stay in hostels in Oporto and Lisbon. In [View Full Entry]

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