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Jeronimos Monastery, Belem

He's Buried in Two Places?

September 28th 2017
Issy decides to have a day off from touring so I set off on my own. First stop is the Lisbon Pantheon. This was originally a sixteenth century church, but it's now been converted into a monument where famous Portuguese people are buried including various presidents, Vasco da Gama, Henry the Navigator, and the soccer player Eusebio. The building's spectacular, and I climb stairs to exhibits on seve ... read more
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Portuguese Flag 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
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