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....Minneapolis Buenos Aires Fajardo Foz do Iguacu Iberia Owensboro Catalonia Maine Rugby Brazil Queenstown Easter Island chetumal Pyongyang North Dakota Lincoln Noosa New Jersey Datong Greenfield Lewes Tekapo Yongin Trinidad Polynesia Colonial Williamsburg Bar Harbor South Korea Appalachians Mongolia Luxor agra oslo yangshou Varadero London Caucasus Caen Toronto Hora Middle East Paraguay Kayenta irkutsk Friendship Highway Madaba Scandinavia Reykjavik Perm new south wales Maryland North Korea Jackson cameron highlands jodhpur Memphis Marigot La Paz Cochrane Rissani Tingri Mendoza Leigh Shenandoah hohhot Mobile Cordoba Havana Zagreb Quito Barre utila punjab Louisiana Margate Lakota Clare Imjingak goa Ipiales penang Los Angeles British Columbia Guilin Australia Camaguey Lauterbrunnen Ticonderoga santa ana Tirana Appalachia solola Estes Park Meridian Hyannis Israel casablanca Torres Del Paine Syria Heartland Santa Roas de Copan colombo El Calafate Zakynthos Arizona Gyeongju Portland Grand Lake Florence Quebec seattle Monticello Galapagos Islands vladimir Ingapirca Germany Medellin ericeira Santo Domingo Bern Nicaragua Twin Lakes Perast Angkor Savannah tulum Nice Northern Ireland ubud victoria Mount Sinai Olympia Greece Crown Point Brussels Zhangmu Popayan Billings Mandeville Belgium Venice Podgorica Castries Montanita Tena Kolkata / Calcutta Malaysia suchitoto Palolem Sligo Jacksonville Sandy Hook Petra Stepantsminda/Kazbegi Sweden moscow The Arctic Port of Spain Montana Minnesota siberia Mestia Zugdidi East Asia Andijon Switzerland Chichicastenango Hartland Pula Saint Stephen hana Dahab Honolulu Bentonia Spitsbergen Arabia Jamestown Jamaica Cherbourg Antwerp Turkey Gradil Prishina Peloponnese New Mexico New Brunswick Singapore Grand Cayman Annapolis Boracay san salvador Budapest Soufriere Ashland Gangnam Bucharest Vilnius Algeciras Essaouira Ghorepani Atlanta Imlil Lahaina Pyramiden Jacmel Tangier Eastport Caleta Tortel granada Hatch Cholpon-Ata Asuncion Bloomington waikiki Ping An Potosi Prescott Brasov Aspen rajasthan Buford Kota Kinabalu Cape Cod Costa del Sol Castro Barentsburg Scottsbluff Tegucigalpa Glasgow Bosnia and Herzegovina Lewisburg South Carolina Dominican Republic Cape of Good Hope West Indies Rotorua Concepción de Ataco copenhagen The Catlins Dead Sea Saint Petersburg shanghai Milford Sound New Zealand - North Island Astana Norway Albania Morocco Greymouth Ljubljana Chiclayo Salta Virpazar Port-au-Prince Iowa Emei Shan Macclenny Danang Ullapool Czech Republic United Kingdom Connecticut Wellington South Dakota Paros Idaho baltimore Te Anu Madison Beulah Kyoto Pensacola Verona West Yellowstone Sarajevo UAE Delft flores Panguitch Transylvania Cambodia Bloubergstrand Panjim Skopje New Zealand Florianopolis Philipsburg Antarctic Peninsula Dominica Dubrovnik Stellenbosch Northland Iguazu Falls Cuenca byron bay Macau Monaco Punta Cana Istria Peninsula Alabama Philadelphia Franschhoek Mount Cook Burlington Chandigarh Croatia galle St. Lucia Lubec Tennessee Elim Romania Aysen Indian Subcontinent Negril porto French Antilles Teotihuacan ABC Islands managua orange walk uxmal delhi Tuscany Vatican City borneo Austria Roseau Yekaterinburg Syracuse Bishkek Paju Granby Cleveland Littleton Mississippi South Shetland Islands El Chalten Ica Muscat Novosibirisk Valparaiso Mystras The Balkans Fes Tbilisi Sneedville Lesser Antilles Alexandria Andalusia North Carolina Bogota Kazakhstan Cartagena cancun Tobolsk Dijon bay islands Thailand fort cochin Aleppo Muriwai Beach Bodie Island Jenkins Huaraz Rio Gallegos Budva Porto Montenegro Paris Prattville Mykonos Simon's Town west bengal varanasi Helen Haiti Rockfish Gap anchorage Drake Passage Italy Urumqi El Salvador Peru Michigan Ghandruk Nepal Kotor Volubilis Kyrgyzstan Brian Head mafra Uyuni Garden City Washington New York Abkhazia Ocho Rios Annapurna San Juan Santa Clara Banos Panama City Deadwood Denmark John O'Groats Tivat Lake Titicaca pushkar Parikia San Jose Amman Blugaria Belize Stepantsminda Ciudad del Este Saint Martin South America Chicago Machu Picchu Aviemore Treasure Beach kandy Muine Rhineland Colorado anjuna North Africa Bremen Mississippi Delta Cologne Tipperary Venezuela Lithuania Pristina New Church Harbin Ireland Gibraltar Washington D.C. las vegas Lockerbie ulan bator miami Xian Jordan hampi Todra Gorge Veliko Tarnovo Galax Fengdu san francisco Antrim Shigatse hilo kerala Cordell beijing Galapagos China Amsterdam Maynardville mysore Fox Glacier Laramie South Ossetia Malaga Laganas Cuba El Alamein Atlantic City Pompeii oahu England Toledo Isla Isabela Charleston Ushuaia Adirondacks Jungfrau Giza Fort Yates Bulgaria Teec Nos Pos New Orleans vancouver Chiloe Marbella Tallahassee Nags Head San Martin de los Andes Kona Alpine bundi India Guiyang Marrakesh Donegal Scotland Gyantse Dandong Intercourse Jeju Lago De Yojoa North America Sofia tomsk Nebraska Canyon Village Lhasa Selma ella Georgia France Aqaba melbourne Olive Hill yucatan Mostar boston langkawi Guanajuato Himeji Bratislava Indiana Williamsburg Lake George California Pisa Bismarck Bangkok Hermanus Virginia Dunedin Vermont Berlin Maracaibo Armenia George Town utah Rhode Island Como Bluffs Montreal Knoxville Ohio Nikko Ecuador Normandy Stanstead Kill Devil Hills Tuymen New York City Fort Payne tibet Ionian Islands Lancaster Tupelo Kleinbaai Delmarva Manteo Kilkenny Wisconsin Osh Hospet Hoi An Lima Saint Lucia Beaver Dam Piura Charlottesville Panama Durres unawatuna Tyumen lisbon Sepilok Fenwick Island Tongariro brisbane Moulay Idriss chiang rai antigua coba Curacao Alausi Riga Trujillo New Zealand - South Island Taupo Kijong-dong / Propaganda Village Slovakia Iceland Mumbai/Bombay Flanders Maharashtra Jefferson Ait Benhaddou Cortez Erie Massachusetts Kentucky Delaware Trieste Hout Bay key west kosovo Arlington Gracanica Rome Loja Lori Westport Alaska El Chaupi Cape Reinga Quebec City Finland Puerto Villamil Hanoi Australasia kovalam dublin Falmouth Copan Ruinas Belize City Netherlands Porto Alegre Copacabana Jebel Toubkal Kerry China & Tibet Estonia Richmond Dades Gorge Missouri Cayman Islands USA wicklow Ouarzazate vizhinjam Vienna Rosario Page Puerto Natales stockholm Pokhara Logan Chefchaouen Srebrenica Central Asia Kyllini Poland Canada Philippines sunshine coast Naples Japan Warwick Tinos Cornelia Rincon Krakow Sabah Hama Macedonia Suez Cape Town Kobe Wadi Rum Slovenia Deception Island Cannon Ball Burgundy Tokyo dubai Slyudyanka Puerto Lopez Sri Lanka Delos Guangzhou Provincetown Chile Wadi Musa Cusco Samarkand Siem Reap Coeburn Trinidad & Tobago Mesoamerica Highland Central America Jackson Hole leshan Barcelona New Hampshire Bolivia Perito Moreno boquete Wanaka Ancud Santiago Atitlan Durango Lake Ohrid Nara Medicine Bow Rosine ataco Christchurch Ohrid Leadville The Cyclades Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Sinai Prague karnataka Longyearbyen Wyoming Sint Maarten New Haven tijuana sydney Ilha de Santa Catarina L'Agulhas leon Costa Rica Rapa Nui Bemidji kenai peninsula Hungary Montville Jersey Shore jaco Sucre Puerto Varas Colleville Sur Mer north car Cannes seoul Campania Indonesia maui Cienfuegos Wilmington Mtskheta Overberg Providence Bruges Madrid Oman Nuweiba Asheville Franconia Manuel Antonio copan Skye Nuwera Eliya Kingston Palestine kollam Nanning Outer Banks Colombia Trinidad and Tobago Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Dyess Pennsylvania Hong Kong Andros Nizhny Novgorod Trakai Invercargill Torrington Guayaquil Bran Vietnam St Paul Gettysburg homer Midelt St. Louis Er Rachidia Uttar Pradesh Luquillo Nevada Custer Roanoke Island Yerevan North Macedonia Ontario Burdine Damascus Ocean City Front Royal South Africa merida Fort William Puerto Rio Tranquilo Crow Agency Gansbaai lamanai Cooperstown Woodstock Golmud Hispaniola amritsar Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Upstate New York ipoh Bird in Hand Svalbard Warsaw Brainerd Alaverdi Meknes Auschwitz/Birkenau Spalding Chongqing Sinuiju helsinki Hawaii Zante Chelsea bali Mexico City Indianapolis alleppey Milan Burwell Baltic States Port Waikato Bariloche Tierra del Fuego Uzbekistan Greater Antilles St Cloud Montego Bay Kuwait Juayua tikal Sao Paulo Listvyanka Essex Panmunjom Bethlehem Hatteras Island Nashville Lexington chengdu Matauri Bay Santiago Tallinn Belgrade Cap-Haitien the big island Patagonia Nasca Kathmandu Salina Colonia del Sacramento Grand Forks Shelly Beach Antarctica Myrtle Beach Erlian Santa Marta Gori Yichang chiang mai Chesapeake Cooke City Cetinje Salt Lake City Abu Dhabi Western Cape Hiroshima Cairo Puerto Rico Dorasan krabi Willemstad Plovdiv Guatemala Oia Whangarei Russia Isla de la Ometepe Almaty Latvia Uruguay Mayo Kuala Lumpur Puno Rio de Janeiro Erg Chebbi Kodari Spain The Caribbean / West Indies Dayton Alliance Istanbul Campobello Island Hyden Yazoo City Krasnoyarsk San Juan Del Sur Walker Edinburgh Florida Clarksdale Montenegro Portugal Tetouan Oregon Santorini guadalajara Shakhunya Naushki Egypt Galway Jerusalem El Jadida Punta Arenas Sunauli Vicksburg Niagara Monte Carlo Honduras Panajachel Cheyenne Mexico Bukhara queensland West Virginia Nacoochee Village Serbia Argentina Santa Rosa de Copan Merzouga New England seward Bluegrass Montpelier Cork Cape May Vík í Mýrdal Lombardy Veneto Arkansas Montgomery Sparta Pucon Puerto Ayora Navajo Nation Hue Southeast Asia Ghent caye caulker Birmingham Suwon kuta Kansas City Khiva Coyhaique Omaha san diego Vancouver Island busan Stirling Illinois Netherlands Antilles Llandudno Tashkent Montevideo