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A Wide River Crossing  
   

A Wide River Crossing

This bridge crosses the river that marks the divide between Portugal and Spain on the southern coast.
Our Final Days in the Algarve of Portugal April 26 - May 2, 2013

May 10th 2013
It is always hard to get the blog updated with what we have done just before leaving a port. As a result will go back in time to just before we left Lagos to fill in the gap. Lagos had a Festival of Discovery that was held between April 26th and May 5th. This is to mark the period during the 16th century when the royalty entered and elevated Lagos to a city as well ... read more
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Portuguese Flag 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
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