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Portugal El Camino - 2016

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September 18th 2016
Day 22 – September 14, 2016 - Porto, Portugal to Povoa de Varzim – 19.65 Miles Right before leaving the hotel this morning we had a group picture taken. Then it was off to the Sao Bento metro station to catch a train to Mercado. Once aboard the very packed train we talked to two gals – one from Germany and another from Romania who are students at the university in Portugal for the semest ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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