Jeronimos Monastery

Lisbon - we'll be back!

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May 20th 2014
Lisbon is an exhausting city, but you just have to keep on going! We took the 728 bus from outside St Apolonia station out to Parque das Nações, the Park of Nations which was the site of Lisbon's Expo World Fair in 1998. On seeing the sign for the Oceanarium we hopped off and soon found ourselves confronted by an enormous albino giraffe looking at itself in a mirror. Of course, it was just a st ... 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