Portugal El Camino - 2016 2

Portugal El Camino - 2016

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August 25th 2016
Lisbon – August 22, 2016 Our day got off to a late start as we were tired from not getting much sleep due to the Fado music from the restaurant below going until the wee hours of the morning. Today our plans were to view the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Calouste Gulbenkian was an Armenian oil tycoon who gave Portugal his art collection or “harem” as he called it. His gift was an act of gr ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley

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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