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Fatima & Batalha

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June 29th 2012
It was an after thought to have a look at those two places for we were very close. We had a bed and Breakfast on the outskirts of Leiria. We stayed with a very nice man who came original from Belgium. He talked a hundred out and was at times very funny as well. We were only two nights there so we had one whole day to go to first Fatima and on the way back was Batalha that has en enormous big churc ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

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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