Salt marshes

Historical villages

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July 29th 2013
Today was a fairly quiet day (recovering from all that fun at the beach). We took our time in the morning, swimming and running. Then we headed out to our first village called Salir. It had some roman ruins from the 13th century which we were able to walk around. Next stop was Alte which had a very quaint centre of town and we found a nice pottery store with local craftmanship. We bought a nice sm ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Boliqueime

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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