Mateus Palace

Doumo River Valley

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June 3rd 2010
The Monastery was stunning. Up in the hills recently restored and turned into a hotel by some rich cod fisherman. You can stay there for about $100 per night the air was so pure and still we had pre dinner drinks on the terrace before dinner and the pork was cooked in the original over from the 1300’s. OK this is the life. Its amazing how easily a group of grownups can become like little chil ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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