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View of Rio Tejo from Elevador de Santa Justa  
   

View of Rio Tejo from Elevador de Santa Justa

Rio Tejo is the Portuguese name for the Tagus River that runs through part of Portugal and Spain and ends up in the Atlantic Ocean.
Lisbon '07

September 28th 2007
It had been 7 years since I traveled abroad. That was when I met up with my long time friend and traveling companion Max, in the unknown territory that was Eastern Europe. A decade earlier, communism had crumbled with the fall of the Berlin wall, and many former Eastern bloc countries declared their independence soon after. Czechoslovakia would become the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Many, includi ... read more
Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Portuguese Flag 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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