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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 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

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By doladodela
February 28th 2007

Back to Porto

 Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto
I feel
I feel
Droped my bags.droped everything.went for the ocean
I have just arrived at Porto's airport. Little depressive feeling. Bring so many things inside me and feel so sad and empty at the same time. Feels as when you walk forward, thinking you have droped something somewhere and you keep looking behind afraid you missed something on the way. I don't know what it is...just loss. ( Xutos&Pontapes - homem do leme - "... a vida é sempre a perder..." ) Life was shown to me in the most beautiful way. I had never seen it so true and colorful. Never had so many great people sharing it with me [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 1st 2007 | 112 Views | [diary=133817]

my ocean
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Fin du trip marocain et début de la ride portugaise. Notre dernier arrêt avant le départ de Casablanca se fit à Rabat, la capitale du Maroc;peu de chose à voir si ce n’est le mausolée de Mahomet V où défile quotidiennement touristes et babeaux venus renifler les sarcophages de marbre de ce souverain et de sa femme,une médina un peu trop aseptisée à mon goût et une kasbah toute mignonne et toute bleu que nous n’avons malheureusement que superficiellement visité,la pluie étant au rendez-vous ce jour là. Nous avons quitté Rabat vers 10 h. le matin en direction de Casablanca que [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 27th 2007 | 128 Views | [diary=133434]

Mausolé
Lisbon
Au Portugal on fait comme les portugais .A la vôtre

By doladodela
February 27th 2007

Time to remember

 Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto
Freedom
Freedom
red carnations
"It takes two to dance tango" popular expression, means you can't just do it on your own you can't have real fun on your own you can't realize things on your own you can't be helped on your own you can't make friends on your own you can't love on your own you can't live on your own... you can't grow beautiful things on your own. you can grow potatoes on your own... =/ though would be easier if you ask someone to help you dig the ground so here are some people who helped me grow my potatoes in this [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 1st 2007 | 88 Views | [diary=133849]

4tugas
zurek
kasia home

By Elihel
February 26th 2007

Portugal!

 Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto
This weekend we took our first trip out of Spain to visit Porto, Portugal - I LOVED it! There was a 100% chance of rain for the weekend, yet somehow it didn't rain the entire 2 days we were there, and it was also off season, so there were hardly any tourists and everything was sooo cheap. This all added up to a great weekend. We had a super early flight on Friday and arrived in Porto at our gorgeous guesthouse around noon. After dropping off our stuff, we wandered around the city admiring the historic architecture and beautiful churches before [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 26th 2007 | 93 Views | [diary=133151]

Jardims de Palacio do Cristal
a historic church

“On the road time is valueless”: the perfect epitaph for the real traveller! I actually have never believed to the tale of the value of time, not even in these sedentary times of my life, I mean. I guess that once, a very, very long ago, someone decided that “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, and “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today”, and “Procrastination is the thief of time” and so on with a long list of badly disguised invitations to dedicate one’s life to be productive. The folks [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 2nd 2007 | 577 Views | [diary=134295]

Happy Days on the Slow Line
Coimbra
A Room with a View

Hmmmm - think the guidebook might have taken a bit of poetic licence there, but more on that later. So, Adam and I headed to Lisboa, the capital of Portugal, for a weekend break. Lisboa has everything that you expect of a European city - an old town; a cathedral; a castle on the hill; a metro and a river. It also has the added factor that it is famous for its tiles - either covering the whole facade of a building, or forming smaller patterns around doors and windows. Lisboa is lovely, the people are friendly, there are good views [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 4th 2007 | 254 Views | [diary=134919]

You decide
Castles - Love
How to beg in Lisbon 101

That's what Darrell Waltrip says at the start of the Nascar Races when the pace car heads for the pits and the cars really start to race., I shouldn't say that just yert, not until March 19th when I catch the plane for Lisbon, actually, Seattle, Atlanta, New York, then Lisbon. Presently, I'm busy learning Portuguese, actually trying to twist my Italian and Spanish into Portuguese. All three languages have a lot in common, but every once in a while I come across a word that is entirely different in all three, like butterfly--Italian is farfalla, Spanish, mariposa, and Portuguese, borboleta. [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 23rd 2007 | 109 Views | [diary=131901]


By chicaloca86
February 16th 2007

Lisbon...

 Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon
I took a 10 hour night train to Lisbon with Tom, Thure, Mary Kate, Rachel, Ian and Sarah. Sarah got to sit in first class, while the rest of us sat in coach. Everyone besides me got put right next to each other, which was dumb, but it was ok because I got a window seat and I fell asleep most of the time. I slept on top of my purse so that no one could steal my stuff in the middle of the night while I was sleeping! When we got there, we headed straight to our hostel (Lisbon Easy [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 4th 2007 | 122 Views | [diary=134780]

Outside the tower, note the storm clouds!
One of the cannons in the defense tower
A great view from the tower

A couple of weeks ago my mom and her friend Cathy came to visit. My mom got in on a Friday, and we rented a car and picked her up from the airport in Lisbon. On Saturday we drove up to the north of Portugal, which Jason and I had really been wanting to see. Our first stop was Braga, which is sometimes called the Rome of Portugal because it has so many churches. I'm not sure if I would go that far, but there were a lot of churches there. We had a hard time figuring out where we were [View Full Entry]

L and J in Portugal - Lindsay & Jason | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 4th 2007 | 82 Views | [diary=135034]

The old cathedral in Braga
Bom Jesus church near Braga
Looking towards Braga from Bom Jesus

Jason and I finally made it to Lisbon for the first time (after six months in Portugal!) a couple of weekends ago. We took a day trip, as it’s only a two hour train ride from Coimbra, and we hit some of the major highlights. We spent the morning walking through the quaint Alfama neighborhood, which has winding streets and buildings covered in colorful tiles. Near the top of the hill is the old city castle, built originally in the 5th century by the Visigoths and altered by the Moors and the Christians as control over the city switched hands over [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 25th 2007 | 79 Views | [diary=132768]

Tiles on the wall
View from the Castelo de São João
The castle wall