COLORFUL STAINED GLASS WINDOW

DAY 7 - ALVADOS DAY 3:

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May 14th 2014
WOKE UP AROUND 8AM, HAD OUR TYPICAL BREAKFAST AND HEADED TO FIRST STOP, THE BATTLE MONASTERY (MONISTERIO BATALHA). WE PASSED THRU PORTO DE MOS, THEN TOOK N352 ALL THE WAY TO BATALHA. FROM MY INTERNET RESEARCH, I'D THOUGHT THERE WASN'T MUCH TOWN THERE, JUST MOSTLY THE MONASTERY, BUT AS WE DROPPED DOWN INTO TOWN, I REALIZED I WAS WRONG. BATALHA, THE TOWN, IS REALLY PRETTY GOOD SIZED. WE WEREN'T SURE ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Batalha

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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