2008-05-12 » Under the Portuguese law, the National Agricultural Reserve (RAN - Reserva Agrícola Nacional) is intended to preserve and protect the most productive soils, which are defined as RAN soils, and to ensure that they are used to develop portuguese agriculture and to guarantee a correct landscape management. (Decreto-Lei 196/89, June [...]
2008-02-23 » A few images from urban parks in Europe:
Copenhagen - Denmark
Santiago de Compostela (Saint James of Compostela) - Spain
Nearby London - England
London - England
The urban parks are privileged areas for leisure and for different formal and informal sports activities, which is quite healthier than the exercises in gyms but not yet [...]
2008-02-20 » A very small town (vila) in the "By-the-Tagus-land" (Ribatejo), on the right edge of the Tagus River, a few kilometers North to the town of Vila Franca de Xira.
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When the Tagus is in flood, this land is submerged - several people have to use boats to go inside and [...]
2008-02-17 » ... IS NOT THE SAME THING AS EUROPE'S WEST (OR FAR WEST?) COAST:
- It is more colourful and diversified, more truthful and exuberant, more real and less technologic.
1- On the cliff top, North of Peniche.
2- Limestone at Portinho da Areia do Sul, Peniche.
3- Fossilized dune at Magoito, [...]