Mafra National Palace, Mafra, Portugal
That moment when a site or attraction just sneaks up on you, stops you in your tracks, & makes you go wow. I had one of those moments today when I paid a visit to Mafra, Portugal, and first laid eyes on the town’s monumentally glorious palace. Wow indeed....
Gradil, Mafra, Portugal
Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to visit a few former Portuguese colonies around the world, notably Macau, China (twice) & Goa, India (three times now). So although I hadn’t been to Portugal before a few days ago I did feel like I knew what to expect....La Paz Hospet Singapore Durango Nevada Stanstead L'Agulhas Puerto Lopez East Asia The Balkans Greymouth yangshou Invercargill South Korea Atlanta Juayua Mexico North America Barentsburg Chelsea unawatuna Jackson Hole El Jadida jodhpur Isla Isabela Antarctic Peninsula byron bay San Martin de los Andes Olympia Suez Estonia Noosa Easter Island Muscat agra Rio Gallegos Datong Pyramiden Ocean City South Ossetia Bethlehem Mount Sinai Coyhaique Kazakhstan Hiroshima Chichicastenango France John O'Groats Stepantsminda/Kazbegi ubud Mount Cook Toronto krabi Petra New Mexico Tashkent Birmingham queensland penang Patagonia leshan Garden City tomsk san salvador Greenfield Loja Panajachel Bismarck Glasgow Matauri Bay Mesoamerica ipoh Istanbul Nuwera Eliya Quebec City Veliko Tarnovo Cork El Alamein Dominican Republic Cuenca Kleinbaai Lewes Adirondacks Rome Torres Del Paine Cannes Portugal Durres Wisconsin Austria Todra Gorge Sri Lanka South Carolina ella Kota Kinabalu Minneapolis Montenegro Montreal Japan Atlantic City Montgomery Jebel Toubkal Punta Arenas sunshine coast dubai hana Osh Ushuaia Northern Ireland Bluegrass San Juan Del Sur Port-au-Prince Tinos Buenos Aires Burwell Andalusia Curacao Greece Olive Hill Laramie Burgundy Clare Russia Jacmel Jamestown Cordell Guatemala Highland utah Charlottesville san diego Piura Colonial Williamsburg Bodie Island Turkey las vegas Alexandria Transylvania Nanning Delmarva Golmud Sofia Santiago Atitlan Sinai tibet Selma Campania Chandigarh homer Appalachia Barre alleppey Novosibirisk Costa del Sol Fes Hout Bay Nara Prattville Venice Central Asia uxmal Italy Lhasa Hungary antigua British Columbia wicklow Sinuiju Romania Aleppo Oman Boracay Ping An El Salvador Bishkek Nacoochee Village Ullapool Ionian Islands Canada Kotor Panguitch Bolivia Scottsbluff Guilin Ciudad del Este Midelt Kilkenny Flanders Chongqing Algeciras Torrington Harbin Christchurch Vík í Mýrdal Lancaster Arkansas Quito Tbilisi Bucharest Pula Lombardy Drake Passage Monaco Gansbaai oahu Castro Cape of Good Hope Iberia Hora Lincoln cameron highlands Indonesia west bengal Massachusetts Normandy Rapa Nui Hermanus Uruguay Falmouth boston varanasi Lahaina Mayo Mystras China Milford Sound Burdine Rhineland san francisco El Chaupi Kodari Brian Head Aysen Ticonderoga Cornelia New York City Cienfuegos Baltic States Zagreb Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuymen Central America Llandudno amritsar Valparaiso Portland Kayenta Switzerland Crown Point chiang rai Annapolis vancouver Kolkata / Calcutta Puerto Ayora punjab Slovenia Rotorua Northland Camaguey Trieste anchorage Marbella Mostar Tetouan Galapagos Islands Madaba Tennessee Kuala Lumpur Tokyo seoul Antwerp lamanai Arabia Uzbekistan goa bali Serbia Muriwai Beach Bremen Florence Pennsylvania Lake Ohrid India Michigan Bulgaria maui Nicaragua Cleveland Cooperstown Scotland Malaga Leadville stockholm Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Porto Montenegro Paraguay Abkhazia Honolulu Lexington Sucre Tekapo Ica Rosine Como Bluffs Walker Littleton Prishina Ingapirca New England Cap-Haitien Dandong Virginia Philipsburg galle Yekaterinburg Colleville Sur Mer Hoi An Huaraz Port Waikato Mobile Oia Guanajuato Cheyenne Colorado Leigh Tingri Hyannis Mtskheta Santa Clara Kansas City Mississippi Delta Saint Martin Iowa Madison El Calafate El Chalten Istria Peninsula bay islands Elim solola Montville Hatch Santa Marta St. Lucia santa ana vladimir Latvia Guayaquil Vicksburg Fajardo karnataka Cambodia St Cloud Wanaka Syria Veneto Varadero Maharashtra hampi Margate Bern Franschhoek Philadelphia Scandinavia Coeburn Ljubljana Vermont Marigot Willemstad delhi Belgrade Slyudyanka Te Anu Dijon Norway Cartagena Kyllini Shenandoah Pompeii Dades Gorge Buford Eastport caye caulker pushkar colombo Amsterdam Parikia Jerusalem Montego Bay Australasia Cordoba Los Angeles Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Greater Antilles siberia Skye Tobolsk Whangarei key west Marrakesh Nebraska Caucasus miami vizhinjam Cape Cod Washington D.C. 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