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Guimaraes Castle and Monte do Bom Jesus - Day Trip from Porto

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June 20th 2016
We picked up our good friends Randy and Nancy who happen to be staying two blocks away (what a great coincidence) using our rental car and drove to Guimaraes. it took us about 45 minutes to drive to the castle. There are actually two castles on the property a newer one that is furnished and a older one that is ruins, there is a small fee to visit the furnished castle. The castle was built for the ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Braga

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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