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Let the Camino begin!

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April 7th 2019
After arriving in beautiful Porto, Jenny and I have a day to explore the city before setting off northwards to Santiago. There is much to see in Porto. We begin in the train station where the walls are covered with over 20,000 tiles depicting historic scenes of the region. Across the road is the cathedral located on the hill and overlooking the River Douro. It is a Romanesque fortress church built ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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