Dom Jesus

Walking around Campo de Gerés

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April 27th 2007
The weather was showery all day but undaunted we went on one of the walks recommended by the campsite. We needed to do a fair amount of road work but were able to experience some of the many mountain tracks in this area. We also passed through the Dom Jesus (the stations of the cross) at Quintâo and the fascinating cobbled street village of Parelas with its vine trellis covered cobbled streets ... 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