Lisbon 20221105_175759

Lisbon

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November 5th 2022
We've been staying in Cascais, which connects to Lisbon by urban train (takes about 30 min), so today we bought a 24 hour transit pass to go inti the city to explore. I'd read that there's a streetcar, tram 28, which runs a route that's a good scenic overview of the city, so we decided to do that first. The article I read suggested the stop at the beginning of the route to make sure we could get ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley

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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... ... read more