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....Indian Subcontinent Brainerd Alexandria Paju New York City Perm Perito Moreno Netherlands Antilles Stanstead goa Belgium Quebec Cape Cod Alliance Vík í Mýrdal Antarctica Aspen Zakynthos granada Morocco Montenegro Dyess Monte Carlo Cannon Ball Uruguay Paros Glasgow Montana Blugaria Veneto Cornelia Bemidji Erie North Dakota Ingapirca Lauterbrunnen Bismarck Kodari tibet Cienfuegos Olive Hill Mexico Como Bluffs Gettysburg Sneedville Northland Annapurna Colombia Olympia Rosine Nasca Billings Indonesia Parikia Pompeii Uzbekistan Barcelona Tuymen lisbon Central Asia Scotland Mexico City beijing Trieste Mobile Cusco Colorado Gansbaai Ontario Imjingak Vietnam busan Gyeongju Noosa Macau Leigh Stellenbosch Oia Perast Margate anjuna George Town Grand Cayman Budapest Tongariro Huaraz Naushki Slyudyanka Panjim hampi Cleveland Tennessee Kobe Australasia Hartland Samarkand Almaty Mount Cook Asheville ipoh Brazil Mostar Kota Kinabalu Charleston Gori casablanca Sao Paulo Jacmel Krasnoyarsk Normandy Havana anchorage maui Khiva Sofia China Antarctic Peninsula Delft Vatican City Port of Spain Siem Reap Sabah Japan Dahab United Kingdom Grand Lake Lesser Antilles ella Tinos Merzouga Matauri Bay Skye Nanning East Asia Dandong Guanajuato Portland seward Netherlands Quebec City Outer Banks Verona Mayo Greater Antilles Helen Santiago Atitlan Syria Shigatse Hue Caen Andros Tallinn Rotorua Nebraska Loja kandy Vilnius Damascus India Sinai Finland Sunauli Arkansas hilo Hyannis Cochrane USA Westport Upstate New York Muriwai Beach Stirling Suwon Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Harbin Fort William South Carolina Eastport Beaver Dam Montgomery Bangkok Mongolia Tivat penang Croatia Delos chetumal Alaska Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Christchurch Chile Iguazu Falls Hungary Garden City Costa Rica Northern Ireland Abkhazia Honolulu Polynesia Cairo The Cyclades Mississippi Wisconsin Belize Yichang Kyllini vladimir Bogota Yazoo City Philipsburg seoul Peloponnese Granby Palestine rajasthan Falmouth Missouri Popayan South Ossetia Tashkent Maharashtra Hatch Guatemala Beulah Hyden Clare yucatan Estonia Shakhunya Medicine Bow Rio de Janeiro Amsterdam miami bundi Curacao Santa Roas de Copan Pennsylvania Budva Thailand Tena Jamestown Galapagos Manuel Antonio Pristina Fox Glacier Juayua Cork Wanaka Dades Gorge delhi Lancaster New England Moulay Idriss pushkar Jordan Ashland Tangier Pokhara Overberg Aysen New York Ocho Rios Czech Republic Syracuse Florence Puerto Natales Switzerland Spalding Marrakesh Tetouan Caleta Tortel Cape May El Chalten Chiloe Panajachel Krakow Albania Vermont New Zealand Wadi Musa kuta Prattville Trinidad & Tobago Navajo Nation Meridian Flanders Ouarzazate Lake Ohrid Kentucky Hong Kong Saint Lucia Canyon Village Cayman Islands Imlil Maryland New Zealand - South Island Kuala Lumpur Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina Montreal Yekaterinburg Copan Ruinas Trakai Uttar Pradesh Puerto Lopez Jamaica Mystras New Orleans Medellin Panguitch Maynardville Punta Cana ubud Naples Boracay Potosi Alaverdi Franschhoek Dubrovnik Jeju Argentina France Isla Isabela Estes Park Alpine tikal New Mexico Buenos Aires waikiki Sepilok Port Waikato Guangzhou galle punjab Isla de la Ometepe Hiroshima San Juan Del Sur Honduras Lake Titicaca chiang rai kenai peninsula Cordoba West Virginia Birmingham Sparta Hanoi Montego Bay Fes leshan Cetinje Milan Baltic States Myrtle Beach Sucre uxmal Lexington Hout Bay Roseau Stepantsminda Catalonia Rincon Page Lago De Yojoa key west Lake George El Chaupi Santorini Knoxville Jerusalem yangshou Listvyanka Ushuaia South Korea Laramie Nuweiba Foz do Iguacu Zagreb Nikko san diego Dijon Durango Maine tomsk Te Anu New Church Western Cape ulan bator Berlin Lockerbie unawatuna Tupelo san salvador Louisiana Bloomington Arabia Mumbai/Bombay Sweden Essaouira El Salvador El Jadida Muine Gangnam Bolivia Essex North Carolina Nara Cherbourg orange walk Grand Forks Israel Kayenta Middle East Portugal Jenkins Hama Porto Alegre Deception Island Sint Maarten Venice managua Appalachians Belize City Lincoln Bulgaria Skopje Los Angeles north car Montpelier Negril Petra Santa Clara Latvia Trujillo langkawi Castries South Shetland Islands dublin Riga Jackson Hole Prague victoria South America homer Ullapool Mississippi Delta Venezuela Willemstad Kyoto St Paul El Calafate Tokyo Slovakia utah Chongqing New Hampshire Castro Vienna guadalajara Ghorepani colombo Nuwera Eliya Asuncion jodhpur Nashville Piura Datong fort cochin Ciudad del Este Bucharest Kazakhstan Torrington Dominica The Balkans Bird in Hand porto Bran L'Agulhas kovalam Bloubergstrand Bethlehem Macclenny San Juan Fengdu Amman Kathmandu Lahaina Washington D.C. 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