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29 imagesNazare, in central Portugal, is located on the Atlantic coast about midway between Lisbon and Oporto. It is a beautiful little town and is renowned for having one of Portugal's most beautiful beaches as well as being the country's most colorful and traditional fishing villages. The locals still sun-dry the daily catches of fish on the beach on screen racks. One of the few places still doing this in Portugal.
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19 imagesThe holy shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, which includes the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, is located in the central Portuguese town of Fatima. It is the sight of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary reported by three shepherd children in 1917. As one of the Catholic Religion's most sacred places, millions of people make pilgrimages to the site every year, many crawling on their knees in prayer for great distances.
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37 imagesLisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal. It is the westernmost large city located in continental Europe, as well as its westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus.
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58 imagesPorto also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon, and one of the major urban areas in the Southern Europe.
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23 imagesMosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça (The Alcobaça Monastery), in the central Portugal town of Alcobaça, was built in 1153 and is the largest Gothic church, in the country. It is also an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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16 imagesObidos, in central Portugal, is a walled medieval village with narrow cobblestones lanes and an old roman aqueduct dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
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9 imagesThe Mosteiro Santa Maria da Vitória, (the Batalha Monastery) is a Dominican convent in Batalha, Portugal. The convent was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese victory over the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota, in 1385. The 725-yr-old, late Gothic convent, is now an UNESCO World Heritage site.