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Porto

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April 30th 2017
This morning I explored the city of Porto - the historic old part of the city, anyway. Today is Sunday so most businesses are closed, but there were plenty of tourists out. Aside from Portuguese, English was the most commonly spoken language that I heard, and French was a close second. My taxi driver didn't speak English, but we were able to communicate a little bit in French - a second language f ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern

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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