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 Azulejos in Our Lady of
Piety Oratory by Bwana_Brown
This oratory, built in the 1700s and dedicated to Our Lady of Piety, provides a perfect place within the gate to put on a show for the town's visitors. As I was trying to take this photo, I had to jostle for position because of large crowd of French tourists had just disembarked from a bus and their guide was trying to explain this to them. At the same time, delivery trucks were trying to squeeze through this old and narrow gate!
I was glad to escape up onto the battlements - but the scene was actually very quiet when we later exited through here. Leave a Comment
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 Windmill at Obidos by Bwana_Brown
This particular windmill, located just outside the town and photographed as I stood on the ramparts of its defensive walls, is representative of the type that you will mostly see in mainland Portugal. However, there is another style used in the Azores, with more Dutch flavour to it. The windmills in mainland Portugal were mostly used to grind the grain that was harvested from the fields.
This windmill has a solid cylindrical base, made of either bricks or stone. The upper wooden section is able to pivot, allowing the sails (normally made of canvas) to catch the ocean breezes prevalent in this area. I recently saw an internet advert for the sale of a windmill exactly like this one (in fact, I think it is this very windmill) going for E135,000 for conversion into living quarters! Leave a Comment
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 Colourful Houses & Ornate
Chimney by Bwana_Brown
Another carryover from the years of Moorish occupation can just barely be seen in the chimney of this house. Its decorative construction is common in these southern parts of Portugal, all the way to the Algarve, because this is where the Moorish occupation lasted the longest. Leave a Comment
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 Rooster of Good Luck &
Happiness by LoriPori
You will find colourful, painted souvenir roosters everywhere you go in Portugal. Leave a Comment
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 local girl selling portuguese
specialties by arasnosliw
Crikey, my accents are not showing up, so if you cannot read what I just wrote, it is "pao com chorico" without accents. Leave a Comment
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 by micas_pt
. Weekdays: 9am to 12.30pm; 2.30pm to 6pm. Leave a Comment
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 eat, drink, be merry by arasnosliw
Anyway, it was quite an amusing experience to eat with this fork that wouldn't even fit properly into my mouth. Drinking red wine under the hot sun certainly didn't help my coordination any.
Pardon this photo; I look about half my age in it. Haha. Am I really that juvenile acting? Leave a Comment
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