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Portual Trip

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April 3rd 2010
Today we travelled north east to the coastal beach town of Nazare. Nazare began as a fishing village but, somewhere along the line, it became very popular as a summer resort as it has several miles of clean wide beach. It’s a sleepy little town during the off season but during the summer, people flock to Nazare in droves. The local accommodation can’t house everyone so people set up tents o ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central » Nazaré

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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