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ten toes in lisbon

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January 12th 2015
Hi 6.30PM and in the television room also reception area. Here early for a chanGE. breakfast then off to Mass at 9.30am, about thirty people present....then went to the botanical gardens about 5 minutes walk from the Monastery..... charge was 2 euros but decided to pay and go in.... value for money perhaps not but was good to look around. Could not get in to any of the buildings as they are bee ... 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