Castle entrance

Off to Silves

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May 26th 2017
Geo: 37.1899, -8.43859This will be our last blog entry using Travelpod as they are shutting down their webpage as of June 19, 2017. You will now finds us at www.mytb.org/Dospalmas Today we visited the traditional Portugués town of Silves. Overlooking the town is a huge red brick castle with impregnable city walls and defensive gates. During the Moorish era Silves was a major tradi ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Estoi » Silves

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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