Eating in tile surroundings

Lisbon (Lisboa)

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May 9th 2007
We have spent the last two days seeing something of Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese), the capital city of Portugal. The city was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1755 and many of the buildings date from the rebuilding that followed. It is situated on a series of ridges and valleys running down to the river Tejo estuary. The two things which impressed us most is the domestic scale of the architec ... 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