2008-04-27 » ... to watch the Palio di Siena (a traditional medieval bareback horse race, late afternoon, in the famous Piazza del Campo, Sienna - Italy).
Piazza del Campo during the Palio. Sienna, Tuscany - Italy.
NOTE: On March 8th, 2008, a crowd of demonstrator teachers and professors (100 000) invaded Lisbon, to protest [...]
2008-03-29 »
Some aspects of Santa Maria de Celas' cloister, Coimbra - Portugal.
A Cistercian feminin Monastery from 1210, National Monument (Monumento Nacional) decreed on June 6th 1910 (by that time Portugal was a Monarchy!). It is nowadays still one of the most important examples of Portuguese Medieval Art and Architecture.
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