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....Argentina Bariloche Tingri Dyess Scotland Berlin Delos Cap-Haitien seward Grand Forks Granby Mount Cook The Catlins Nicaragua Ontario New England Spain El Chaupi New Mexico Tena Perito Moreno Hora Castro shanghai Maharashtra Barcelona Chiclayo Lima Meknes New Zealand Khiva Charleston Midelt Vietnam Zante Pensacola Malaga Amsterdam Garden City Syria Catalonia Aqaba Luquillo borneo Gyeongju Mount Sinai Alabama Pompeii Ingapirca Wanaka Crow Agency Guangzhou Warwick Olive Hill Crown Point Puerto Varas Cooperstown Campania Cherbourg Quebec Cape Cod Galapagos Sligo Portland ericeira Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Montevideo Algeciras South Dakota Ghandruk El Calafate stockholm UAE yucatan anchorage Mostar South Carolina sunshine coast Deadwood Isla de la Ometepe Krasnoyarsk Ocho Rios Alaska Hatteras Island porto hohhot North Dakota Provincetown Finland Yichang Imlil Spitsbergen alleppey Turkey George Town Hispaniola Potosi Tokyo Italy St. Lucia Salt Lake City byron bay Mississippi Delta Veliko Tarnovo Leigh Tangier Angkor Macclenny Belize City Charlottesville Yekaterinburg Trinidad ella chengdu Colorado homer Bolivia Rhineland queensland Novosibirisk Palolem Knoxville Oman Ticonderoga Mayo Belgrade Cape Reinga Switzerland Rapa Nui Hanoi Mendoza Te Anu Cortez tikal Jebel Toubkal kuta Uttar Pradesh Tallinn Tobolsk Bluegrass Bismarck North Korea boston Tashkent Muscat Margate Milford Sound Ljubljana coba Shelly Beach Shakhunya Kleinbaai Listvyanka Armenia Madrid tomsk Montanita Bishkek Friendship Highway Czech Republic Honolulu Emei Shan Annapurna Simon's Town John O'Groats La Paz Santiago Atitlan Cork Fort Yates Lori Mississippi Guayaquil Chiloe Marbella The Caribbean / West Indies Veneto Essaouira Muriwai Beach victoria agra New York Kyrgyzstan Chicago amritsar Stepantsminda/Kazbegi Southeast Asia Donegal Plovdiv Ohio Er Rachidia Vík í Mýrdal cancun Slovenia Wilmington Tyumen El Alamein Arkansas USA Jackson Hole Pyramiden Bar Harbor Panama City Meridian Philippines Intercourse Burgundy Sweden South Korea Scottsbluff Bukhara Himeji Belgium Puno Burdine Sarajevo Hawaii Port of Spain Erg Chebbi South America Golmud Morocco Dades Gorge Haiti Juayua Aysen China & Tibet Buenos Aires krabi Panjim Wadi Rum Budva dubai Skopje Alexandria hana Castries copenhagen Thailand Oia tibet Estonia oahu antigua Cuba Brussels bali Nashville Macau Santa Clara Antwerp Bangkok Venice Patagonia Ipiales Paros Ecuador Brasov Omaha solola leshan Guatemala Yerevan siberia Kilkenny jaco Lhasa Kill Devil Hills Jeju Andijon Tivat Austria Arizona Kuala Lumpur Machu Picchu Colombia Hermanus Cooke City North Africa Mongolia Michigan Cholpon-Ata Peru Laganas Colonia del Sacramento Trinidad and Tobago seoul merida Belize Dayton Alliance lamanai Bruges Quebec City Kentucky Ancud uxmal melbourne Hue Havana Kathmandu Scandinavia Prishina Essex Lesser Antilles langkawi Maracaibo Indonesia Burlington Warsaw Ghent Hyannis Kolkata / Calcutta Invercargill Pisa Guilin Santa Marta Russia Wadi Musa Fengdu Laramie Lauterbrunnen Isla Isabela san francisco Rissani Appalachians suchitoto sydney Dahab West Virginia ulan bator Kuwait Whangarei Transylvania New Zealand - North Island Blugaria Hospet Minnesota north car Albania Owensboro Croatia The Cyclades Tetouan goa busan utila Los Angeles Varadero New Haven seattle Ilha de Santa Catarina Kyllini Piura Tuymen Kodari Montpelier Denmark lisbon Fenwick Island anjuna Outer Banks cameron highlands Vatican City wicklow Jacksonville Imjingak Boracay France Virpazar New Zealand - South Island Tallahassee Sucre Lombardy Vermont Birmingham Ionian Islands Uruguay Cape of Good Hope India Krakow Northern Ireland Kansas City Hiroshima maui Greymouth Rhode Island Zhangmu Florence Guanajuato Petra L'Agulhas Paraguay Singapore Memphis Cannes Jersey Shore Rincon Canada Roanoke Island Puerto Rico Nacoochee Village Beulah Lexington French Antilles Delmarva Montville Wisconsin Gibraltar Franconia Cologne Santiago Missouri Cheyenne Jungfrau Dijon Lewisburg Muine Ashland Israel Grand Lake jodhpur Panajachel Indianapolis South Shetland Islands boquete Cuenca Copacabana Saint Petersburg Louisiana Puerto Rio Tranquilo Kyoto London santa ana Durango punjab Erlian Gangnam Cordoba Panama Hartland Jordan Datong Connecticut Mesoamerica Galax Page Stellenbosch Rugby Florida Torrington Custer Walker Riga varanasi Iowa Sabah guadalajara Torres Del Paine Marrakesh Puerto Natales Andalusia Illinois Saint Lucia vladimir Como Bluffs Myrtle Beach Fox Glacier Trujillo Mtskheta Pristina Tegucigalpa Sao Paulo Japan Kijong-dong / Propaganda Village Helen Fort Payne Honduras Yongin Aspen Logan san salvador Chelsea Bodie Island Philipsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina Lithuania Tekapo Almaty Twin Lakes Flanders Washington D.C. 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