Saturday, December 19, 2009

Europe again, this time Portugal

I received three postcards from Americo as part of private swap:


UNESCO World Heritage Site - Historic Centre of Evora
- This museum-city, whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its golden age in the 15th century, when it became the residence of the Portuguese kings. Its unique quality stems from the whitewashed houses decorated with azulejos and wrought-iron balconies dating from the 16th to the 18th century. Its monuments had a profound influence on Portuguese architecture in Brazil.
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/361)

UNESCO World Heritage Site - Cultural Landscape of Sintra
- In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other fine dwellings, built along the same lines in the surrounding serra, created a unique combination of parks and gardens which influenced the development of landscape architecture throughout Europe.
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/723)

Map postcard of Lisbon coast

Thanks a lot to Americo for the swap and the three different beautiful stamps.

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