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Parabéns a Mi (Day 21)

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June 1st 2010
So I have decided that the best way to enjoy a city, at least on a trip like this, is in about 4 days or so. Its long enough where you begin to feel like home where you are staying and know the area pretty well, but not long enough where you feel you have overstayed your welcome or feel like you are stagnating. In four days you can see a decent bit of a city and still have time to make some sort ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

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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