Tavira - Portugal
March 18th 2011 Tuesday 15th February 2010
Time to move on to Portugal today via Palos de Frontera. Palos is considered the "cradle of the Discovery of America" because from its port in 1492 the ships of Christopher Columbus and the Pinzon brothers set off to discover a shorter route to India and discovered the New World.
On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed with three ships; the Santa MarĂa ni
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