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2009-11-24
2009-11-22
Praia Grande
Praia Grande is justifiably known as a Portuguese capital for water sports, like bodyboard. European and world championships are held each year on this beach, as well as stages in the best known circuits of the sport. For weeks on end Praia Grande sees the world's best, who take advantage of the unique waves on that beach. Next to Praia Grande is the smaller beach of Praia Pequeno.
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2009-11-20
Tower of Bujaco
This is one of the symbols of Caceres. It is a 25m high flanking tower, built to protect the wall and the city. It was built towards the 12th century, with machicolations and crowned by battlements, to which other elements were added, such as the small Renaissance balcony. It is connected to the wall by a small bridge the top of which - used by soldiers to keep watch - you can today cross over from here.
Praia Grande
Praia Grande is justifiably known as a Portuguese capital for water sports, like bodyboard. European and world championships are held each year on this beach, as well as stages in the best known circuits of the sport. For weeks on end Praia Grande sees the world's best, who take advantage of the unique waves on that beach. Next to Praia Grande is the smaller beach of Praia Pequeno.
2009-11-15
The Mafra National Palace
The Mafra National Palace is a monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery located in Mafra, Portugal. Its dimensions are so huge that it dwarfs the city. The palace-monastery is said to be Portugal's attempt to rival the Spanish palace at Escorial outside Madrid, Spain, but was built more like a response to the power of the Vatican, having the monastery a similar loom to the Pope's official residence.
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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2009-11-14
San Benito Monastery
The Mafra National Palace
The Mafra National Palace is a monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery located in Mafra, Portugal. Its dimensions are so huge that it dwarfs the city. The palace-monastery is said to be Portugal's attempt to rival the Spanish palace at Escorial outside Madrid, Spain, but was built more like a response to the power of the Vatican, having the monastery a similar loom to the Pope's official residence.
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.
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2009-11-13
2009-11-12
Mafra statues
MAFRA (Portugal): Statues. This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The statues on the front and in the side chapels, as well as the chapel's retable, are in Italian marble.
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2009-11-06
The Mafra National Palace
MAFRA (Portugal): The Mafra National Palace.The Mafra National Palace is a monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery located in Mafra, Portugal. Its dimensions are so huge that it dwarfs the city. The palace-monastery is said to be Portugal's attempt to rival the Spanish palace at Escorial outside Madrid, Spain, but was built more like a response to the power of the Vatican, having the monastery a similar loom to the Pope's official residence.
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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2009-11-05
The Mafra National Palace
MAFRA (Portugal): The Mafra National Palace.
The Mafra National Palace is a monumental Baroque and Italianized Neoclassical palace-monastery located in Mafra, Portugal. Its dimensions are so huge that it dwarfs the city. The palace-monastery is said to be Portugal's attempt to rival the Spanish palace at Escorial outside Madrid, Spain, but was built more like a response to the power of the Vatican, having the monastery a similar loom to the Pope's official residence.
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/
VMRibeiro.net
This vast complex is among the most sumptuous Baroque buildings in Portugal and one of the biggest buildings constructed in Europe in the 18th century. The palace was built symmetrically from a central axis, occupied by the basilica, and continues lengthwise through the main façade until two major towers. The structures of the convent are located behind the main façade. The building also includes a major library, with about 40,000 rare books.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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2009-10-31
Church of Santa Maria de Almocovar
ALCÁNTARA (Spain): Romanesque church of Santa Maria de Almocovar.Built over a former mosque.
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2009-10-30
2009-10-23
Old machinery of flour mill
ALCANTARA (Spain): Old machinery of flour mill.Fotolia.com
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2009-10-20
2009-10-17
Triumphal arch
ALCANTARA (Spain): Triumphal arch.One of the finest examples of Roman bridge building, the Puente Romano across the Río Tajo was built in AD 106 and dedicated to the Emperor Trajan, who is honored by a triumphal arch in the center of the bridge and a small temple at one end.
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