| |  | | | Portugal | Latitude: 38.71667 N Longitude: -9.133333 W Capital: Lisbon | | | | | | | | Travel in Portugal A total of 34 members have visited 59 locations in Portugal. Together they have written 44 travel stories and uploaded 889 pictures from Portugal. Last visit in Portugal was made 2009-05-16 by tjv who was in Lisboa. Have you been to Portugal? Click here to join and share your pictures and stories. |
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Short introduction to Portugal
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 as a colony. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal entered the EC in 1985.
Source: World Factbook |
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Travel stories from Portugal  | after the hights the deep blue! haliotis gardens | | with a mind full of incredible images from africa, it was time to go for the under water Berlengas toes. diving in Berlengas is something out a screen full of galactic images. even not very deep we ca... |
| | | |  | mondego's river mermaid | | The autumn is here, and the mermaid has wellcomed us to visit her for a journey into pleasure!
Let the day begin, let the light in! let the sound flow with the leaves to the ground, let the sun cam... |
| | | |  | Tj; The Mushrooms | | There was a multitude of strange mushrooms in Lisbon, multicoloured, triumphant, happy, grumpy, stupid, angry and everything in between. The day was a sunny shade of blue as we walked around the stur... |
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