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Nightlife in Lisbon

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June 8th 2006
We went to the Castelo de Jorge this afternoon after we took the metro to get our tickets for the night train to Madrid tomorrow night. Everything here has to be done between 10 and 1 or after 3pm because EVERYTHING CLOSES so that you can go eat!! The castle is from the 12th century, most of the walls are still standing.....it's the view that's amazing 360 degrees around, you can see all of Lisb ... read more

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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