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Moorish Castle

This is the castle that the Moors built above Sintra in the 900s. It was later taken by the Catholic Portuguese King in the 1200s. Tommy is imaging that he is a knight fighting the infidels.
Angie loved Portugal!

April 17th 2007
UntitledThe Conley Family Portugal: We started with an exhausting late drive to Sevilla, where you'll laugh: we drove into a nice truck stop hotel at 2 am desperate to find a bed and the five us shared 3 single beds… we can laugh now and it makes for a good story, but we wanted to drive as far as we could… the kids had their in ... read more
Europe » Portugal

Portuguese Flag 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
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