Lisbon Graffiti

Portugal!

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May 15th 2009
We got into Lisbon on Wednesday, April 22nd, with plans to spend only a couple days. We stayed for four before we could pry ourselves from this city! We met some great people and partied our time away. We were lucky enough to hit it during Portuguese Freedom Day that celebrates the liberation from a facist dictatorship in 1974. The same day is also ANZAC Day! From Lisbon, we moved south to beautif ... read more

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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