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Lisboa

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March 22nd 2011
Wednesday 23nd February 2011 Drive from Evora to Lisbon staying the city’s municipal campsite which is well placed for visiting the city and surrounding areas of interest. In the afternoon we catch a bus to Belem, famous as the place from which many of the great Portuguese explorers set off on their voyages of discovery. In particular, it is the place from which Vasco da Gama departed for In ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

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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