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....Budapest Logan Matauri Bay El Alamein Charleston New Zealand - South Island Laganas Quebec Port Waikato Denmark Canyon Village Ait Benhaddou Fox Glacier St Cloud Wanaka Colonial Williamsburg Nashville bundi Naples Ouarzazate waikiki Cork South Carolina Crown Point vancouver Pensacola China & Tibet seward utila Falmouth miami Galapagos Suez Mississippi Delta Polynesia kovalam Castries Srebrenica Monticello Barentsburg Paju Philipsburg Caucasus Appalachians guadalajara Alpine Valparaiso Harbin Dyess Shenandoah Yazoo City Romania Cooperstown ella Warsaw Lhasa Turkey jaco Almaty Atlantic City New Mexico Zhangmu flores dublin Nuwera Eliya North Carolina galle Teec Nos Pos Ushuaia Lago De Yojoa Yichang Italy Savannah Latvia Pyramiden Maharashtra Transylvania lisbon baltimore Aviemore Alaverdi Grand Forks Connecticut Roseau Beaver Dam boston tikal helsinki Eastport Macclenny merida Sabah San Jose South Dakota Jebel Toubkal Franschhoek pushkar Potosi Delft Olympia Jackson Hole Bird in Hand Todra Gorge Poland irkutsk India Rissani Mostar Lahaina Merzouga fort cochin Pucon Lake George Simon's Town chetumal Damascus Arabia Pyongyang Soufriere Baltic States Barre Kathmandu santa ana homer Sepilok Himeji El Calafate Cologne Paros Taupo utah yucatan South Korea Milford Sound Salt Lake City Kentucky Iceland Cannes Caen oslo Podgorica Nacoochee Village Tbilisi Cusco Cortez Thailand Prescott Virpazar Maine Erg Chebbi Mykonos Angkor Lockerbie Cuenca Colorado solola Ipiales Dahab Manuel Antonio Santa Clara key west Whangarei West Virginia Patagonia St Paul Panama Belgrade Santiago Atitlan ipoh maui Clarksdale Lombardy Port of Spain Erlian Amman China Torres Del Paine Tangier Tokyo Como Bluffs Hora Golmud Jamaica Malaysia Bangkok Burdine New Zealand Maryland Switzerland Galway Los Angeles Cannon Ball tibet new south wales hampi Indiana Novosibirisk Chandigarh bay islands Westport Krakow Lithuania Gyeongju Hue Cartagena Bulgaria Bran Montanita Grand Lake Yerevan Arlington Austria North Dakota Barcelona French Antilles Luxor Mount Sinai Invercargill Hawaii Berlin Tegucigalpa Madison Asheville Gori Jamestown Puno Lewes Sofia Negril Franconia Budva queensland Coyhaique Salina Cornelia Provincetown Portugal Middle East Chesapeake Jacmel Japan Guatemala Bishkek Syracuse Iberia leshan Listvyanka Alabama Hoi An Shigatse Greenfield Central Asia Central America Peloponnese Mobile Missouri unawatuna Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Medellin Bloubergstrand London Upstate New York Ecuador Tena The Caribbean / West Indies Lauterbrunnen Ghandruk California Spitsbergen Antarctic Peninsula shanghai Istanbul colombo Mtskheta Twin Lakes Stepantsminda Tallinn Astana lamanai Boracay Dead Sea Australia Monaco Sri Lanka Fengdu New Zealand - North Island Oia Panmunjom Popayan Meridian Scottsbluff Pula Rhode Island Bethlehem Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Varadero Cambodia Cholpon-Ata Campania Stellenbosch Sneedville Malaga granada Helen Memphis Hungary Rapa Nui Intercourse Haiti Russia Moulay Idriss Xian Puerto Ayora Tennessee Cap-Haitien Andros Catalonia Cherbourg Toronto Ghorepani George Town Montenegro Sligo Tingri Chelsea Custer Danang Prattville Zakynthos Alausi yangshou Bemidji ericeira Washington D.C. 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