Batalha Cathedral

Traveling North

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March 18th 2008
Our trip north over the last several days has seen the topography change, populations grown denser, the weather colder, and the coffee stronger. Portuguese histroy seems to be older as you go north, as well. We thought we had a nodding acquaintence with it´s history in all the time we´ve spent in the south, but we didn´t. Our fist stop was at the walled town of Obidos. The wall is intact, t ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central

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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