Lost in Portugal 2

We kept hearing about some tower and expected a much bigger one. We were not impressed by the small stature of this "tower". We were told that when you see the tower you were getting close to el centro.

Oh, Porto...

October 17th 2005
Beautiful. It's hard to say much else about it. This place left me speechless and at the moment the only word to descibe it is 'beautiful'. The people are incredibly nice and very mellow. Life in Porto seems good, peaceful, and happy. I had a hard time leaving this place, and in this place was the first time that it really hit me. I'm not home anymore. I am in Europe! I am in Portugal! I have seen ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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

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