Marvao

The castle of Marvao and the city walls seen from the highway below. Note, the camera was zoomed in as far as it could go. To the naked eye...the castle was hard to distinguish against the outline of the moutain.

Fin de semana

September 28th 2006
Queridos amigos, I went to the hometown of my host mom Valéncia de Alcántaras this weekend. It is a town of about 1000 people and less that 20 km from the border with Portugal. We stayed at the home of her son, David, outside of Valéncia in an even smaller village called San Pedro (de Alcántaras). The San Pedro mountains are beautiful and are high, narrow ridges of granite that start abrup ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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