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Lisboa second day

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July 2nd 2012
We were trying to do less walking so we took the sight seeing bus for the next two days. This first day we wanted to visit the Jeronimus Monastry. It houses the Maritime museum and the other side is the Monastry and the chapel. We left at 10.30 and the bus station is just in front of us. It is in the area of Belem. Later we would go to the Belem Tower. The maritime museum was out of this world. Be ... 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