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Santarem to Fatima to Tomar

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October 30th 2017
Tuesday, October 24th to Santarem, Santarem Hostel. Breakfast at Quinta da Burra was as good and nourishing as supper. Paula encouraged us to take sandwiches with us because the next facilities were 13.5 km. away. Another cool morning as we continued along the dike of the river and then through fields that farmers were preparing for fall crops. Santarem is on a hill, a 400-foot s ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central

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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