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Category: Portugal

Shadows Squared in Portugal

11/23/2025

Shadows on wine casks in a winery in the Douro Valley in Portugal. Becky at The Life of B has issued her square challenge for November. Her theme for is shadows. Post as often as you want. The only rule is that one of the images in your post must be square. Join Shadows Squared … More Shadows Squared in Portugal

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A Trio of Angels

11/23/2025

In a church in Lisbon, Portugal. Join Mama Cormier’s Thursday Trios for November 20, 2025

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Shadows Squared in the Museum

11/03/2025

Dramatic shadows highlight the features of a classical marble bust in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum collection in Lisbon, Portugal. Becky at The Life of B has issued her square challenge for November. Her theme for is shadows. Post as often as you want. The only rule is that one of the images in your post … More Shadows Squared in the Museum

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Fuschia Flowers

10/26/2025

Flowers in Infante Dom Pedro Park in Aviero, Portugal. Join RDP SATURDAY: FUSCHIA

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Silent Sunday in Porto

09/06/2025

Gothic cloister for the Porto Cathedral, Porto, Portugal

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“We bones, are here, waiting for yours.”

09/25/2024

Capela dos Ossos, or the Chapel of the Bones, is one of the best-known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a chapel of bones to make a penitent meditate about the transient nature of life and death. Bones stacked upon more bones. In the 17th century, Franciscan monks created and decorated a small interior chapel … More “We bones, are here, waiting for yours.”

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Getting a Lift in Lisbon

07/17/2024

Ascensor da Bica. Built in 1892, the funicular ascends one of Lisbon’s steepest hills. It is one of three funiculars in Lisbon. Join John’s Cellpic Sunday for July 14, 2024

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Silent Sunday

03/10/2024

Evora, Portugal

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Thursday’s Door

01/12/2024

Pink Wine Point, Pink Street, Barrio Alto, Lisbon, Portugal Join Dan’s Thursday Doors

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Wordless Wednesday

01/10/2024

Standing out in a crowd

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