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....Puerto Villamil byron bay Invercargill Saint Martin Barentsburg Rugby Cairo Listvyanka Ingapirca Mexico Barcelona Bloomington Oman Slovenia Atlantic City coba Hartland Ocho Rios san francisco The Cyclades Lombardy agra Belgium South America Logan ericeira Colonial Williamsburg Gyeongju Santa Marta Kazakhstan Outer Banks Abu Dhabi Antrim Hawaii Emei Shan South Shetland Islands yangshou Malaysia Cap-Haitien El Chaupi Arlington Dandong beijing Hungary Er Rachidia Gracanica Tierra del Fuego Charlottesville Lauterbrunnen Stirling Castro Slovakia South Korea krabi Quito Todra Gorge key west antigua Iberia El Salvador Stanstead Cannon Ball Fox Glacier New Zealand - North Island Richmond Dayton kovalam Vienna Amsterdam Punta Arenas Fajardo Mumbai/Bombay Mayo Kotor Custer Potosi Ciudad del Este Bismarck Tbilisi Suwon New Church West Virginia Ljubljana Shelly Beach Buenos Aires Gangnam Australasia Guangzhou Florianopolis Montevideo Cortez jaco Mystras Jacmel Paraguay Gansbaai Montana Minnesota Auschwitz/Birkenau Sofia Singapore Burgundy Salina Teotihuacan Crow Agency Barre Jefferson Chongqing Italy Laganas Essaouira Mississippi Campania Highland Fengdu Tingri ataco Mandeville Scottsbluff Cannes Guiyang Punta Cana Tivat Bruges kosovo Arizona Zante unawatuna Bucharest Cordell Costa Rica Mestia managua Kyoto Bran Ushuaia Toronto Netherlands Juayua Cote d'Azur / French Riviera The Catlins Falmouth Cheyenne Panmunjom waikiki Franschhoek Honduras helsinki Ouarzazate maui Jordan Leadville Fort William Mostar chiang mai Concepción de Ataco Montreal Stepantsminda/Kazbegi Hatch Naples Saint Stephen Algeciras Como Bluffs Sparta Oia fort cochin Veliko Tarnovo Philippines Brussels tikal Harbin California Chandigarh Damascus Hyannis Panama Woodstock Kuwait Podgorica tijuana Leigh yucatan dubai Latvia Nice Bangkok boquete Mississippi Delta Canada punjab Philipsburg Reykjavik Midelt Chelsea Sint Maarten Danang Bosnia and Herzegovina West Indies Cuenca Porto Montenegro Bolivia Virginia Puerto Natales goa new south wales hampi Antarctic Peninsula Zugdidi Poland Edinburgh shanghai Rhineland Ghandruk solola tibet French Antilles Matauri Bay Monte Carlo Southeast Asia Kyrgyzstan Pisa Montanita Cholpon-Ata Cologne Dorasan El Chalten Quebec City Lubec siberia Hong Kong Chichicastenango Osh Uyuni Durres Medicine Bow Finland Overberg Machu Picchu Roseau Moulay Idriss Margate Llandudno Deadwood Cape Reinga Sweden Sabah Cienfuegos Valparaiso South Ossetia Saint Lucia Czech Republic Bariloche Lake George north car Riga St Paul Gori France Tallahassee Madrid Bodie Island Warsaw Urumqi Rissani Aysen leon bay islands Alabama vancouver Guatemala Chile Vicksburg Prattville China Sucre Portland Myrtle Beach Salt Lake City George Town Port of Spain Montenegro Kona kollam Hout Bay The Balkans Montpelier London St. Lucia Muscat moscow Ica Maine Sao Paulo Lancaster New Haven Washington kuta Ionian Islands Florence oahu Guilin Blugaria Zagreb Panguitch Trinidad and Tobago Washington D.C. hilo Gibraltar langkawi Israel Asuncion Prague Greymouth South Africa North America Idaho Annapolis Trinidad Puerto Rico Whangarei Aqaba Delft Dunedin Laramie guadalajara North Carolina Appalachia Grand Lake Philadelphia Mykonos Iowa Hora Dubrovnik Prishina Scotland borneo miami Panajachel Datong Mongolia Piura Nepal Brian Head East Asia Soufriere Annapurna Kolkata / Calcutta Ipiales Colonia del Sacramento Greenfield Nikko Rockfish Gap Bloubergstrand kenai peninsula Luxor Ecuador St. Louis Ocean City Dominica Ashland Salta uxmal West Yellowstone Sandy Hook Ping An Eastport Malaga Appalachians North Korea Aleppo Kayenta Ilha de Santa Catarina jodhpur Parikia Isla Isabela Jenkins Haiti Lockerbie Rosine Guanajuato Spalding Front Royal San Juan caye caulker Venice Pompeii Port Waikato Nizhny Novgorod Suez Macedonia Vík í Mýrdal Puerto Varas North Macedonia Clarksdale Vermont Andalusia Ohrid hohhot baltimore anjuna Rome Stepantsminda Samarkand Navajo Nation Mesoamerica Hatteras Island Rincon Aspen Kota Kinabalu granada Montego Bay Castries Ohio Chiloe Argentina Estonia Santa Clara Grand Cayman Marigot Dijon Michigan Pula Milford Sound Coyhaique Lhasa Cape of Good Hope Bratislava Buford Galapagos Sri Lanka Alliance Russia Kill Devil Hills ella The Arctic Brasov Delmarva Yongin Kingston England Williamsburg utila Thailand Tobolsk United Kingdom Hispaniola Cleveland Nevada Olive Hill Germany Erlian Florida ABC Islands Albania Nara Himeji Maryland sydney El Jadida lisbon Antwerp Kobe Kijong-dong / Propaganda Village Costa del Sol Svalbard Serbia irkutsk Lima UAE Vietnam flores Pokhara Rotorua New Orleans Nuwera Eliya copan las vegas New England Alpine boston Imjingak Tirana Porto Alegre Belize City Transylvania Lewes Jackson Selma New Hampshire Catalonia Budapest Durango Drake Passage Greece Plovdiv Bern Garden City Perm New Zealand - 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