Bragança citadel, church and council chamber

Bragança

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April 25th 2007
Before we left for this trip, we had a couple of weeks of sunny clear weather in England and this continued getting gradually warmer as we drove through France and into Spain. Today, when we woke up it was cloudy and cool. We quickly packed up and soon after starting to drive across northern Spain and into Portugal it started to rain and continued all day. Fortunately there were no leaks in the v ... 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