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....Shigatse Jordan Tuscany Golmud kollam Cleveland Ouarzazate Egypt Buford Copan Ruinas Suez Lake Ohrid Osh Santa Rosa de Copan sydney Aviemore St Paul Rockfish Gap Simon's Town Knoxville Ocho Rios Toronto san francisco Santorini kenai peninsula tikal Amman Nuwera Eliya Mongolia Slyudyanka Jerusalem shanghai Alexandria Gori Jackson Hole Brazil sunshine coast Cooperstown The Caribbean / West Indies The Cyclades Bethlehem Aqaba Madrid Lesser Antilles Belize Gyeongju Ait Benhaddou Kilkenny Punta Cana Tena Portland Dyess Naples Sri Lanka Littleton Bismarck Kolkata / Calcutta langkawi Garden City Prague tulum Mayo Honolulu Denmark Valparaiso Dominica Yerevan Front Royal Delaware Tingri San Juan Del Sur Beulah Ullapool Sandy Hook Iceland Fenwick Island Pokhara West Indies Chicago Tallinn Stanstead Maynardville Vilnius Galapagos ataco Bulgaria Luxor Salta Todra Gorge Charlottesville Westport South Korea kandy Imjingak Tipperary Asuncion Cienfuegos North Dakota Skopje Arabia cancun Western Cape Srebrenica Cork Arlington Trujillo bay islands solola Mexico Tobolsk Guangzhou Honduras Hartland Guanajuato New York City Sparta Trinidad Aysen Paju Custer Cartagena Malaysia Varadero Cuba Venice Nags Head Estes Park ubud Santa Roas de Copan stockholm Te Anu Oman Puerto Rio Tranquilo Mystras santa ana Taupo Laramie England fort cochin Cornelia orange walk guadalajara Foz do Iguacu Greece Midelt Flanders Indiana El Salvador Reykjavik Maine Missouri North America New Zealand Ontario merida tijuana Caen Nara Central America Santa Marta Memphis Fengdu Maharashtra Philipsburg Macclenny wicklow Hiroshima Bukhara Portugal Tierra del Fuego oahu Rapa Nui Krakow Fox Glacier California Perito Moreno Lincoln Toledo Indonesia Pula Cote d'Azur / French Riviera New Brunswick Hama South America Paraguay Indianapolis Burlington Kuwait Jebel Toubkal Barcelona Rio Gallegos Istanbul Lori Nevada Vietnam Czech Republic Bar Harbor Budva Puerto Villamil Colonia del Sacramento Vík í Mýrdal boston karnataka Stepantsminda Trinidad and Tobago Lubec Israel Scotland Scottsbluff Shakhunya Cuenca Illinois queensland Alabama Sunauli Asheville yucatan Sao Paulo Crown Point Iberia Fajardo Sint Maarten Mexico City Dorasan United Kingdom Saint Martin South Shetland Islands Cap-Haitien seward Antrim Hawaii tibet ericeira Porto Montenegro USA San Martin de los Andes Nashville dubai Bruges Matauri Bay Treasure Beach Hoi An Hatteras Island Durres Hong Kong Erg Chebbi Berlin Hout Bay Lewes Maryland Manuel Antonio Arkansas Mississippi Oregon Trakai Jungfrau Costa del Sol Greymouth Florida Highland New Zealand - South Island Stirling Woodstock Hispaniola Datong Lakota Port-au-Prince Montevideo New Hampshire Wellington Washington Greenfield Eastport Japan Rincon leon Gracanica Mendoza Listvyanka Baltic States Palestine Belgium Donegal waikiki Los Angeles Nicaragua Merzouga Birmingham Cetinje Oia Jefferson Bluegrass Saint Stephen Clare Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Gettysburg Chefchaouen Danang Bosnia and Herzegovina Kleinbaai Tirana Jenkins Saint Petersburg Middle East Southeast Asia hilo dublin Northland Morocco Idaho Chongqing Lewisburg Drake Passage Patagonia Nebraska krabi Lexington Ghent chengdu The Arctic Marrakesh Cape Town Havana Guayaquil Jacmel Bolivia Dayton Chelsea helsinki Hospet Macau Zhangmu Sabah South Africa miami Harbin Australia Deadwood north car Quebec Delft ella Trieste Andros Adirondacks Washington D.C. 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