Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Lumiar

Saint Sebastião Chapel at Paço, in Parich Council of Lumiar.

This Parich Council was created in April 2, 1266, having this year commemorated the 740º aniversary. Nowadays the population is about 50.000 inhabitants

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Lisboa City Hall

Lisboa


The City's Reception Hall, Paços do Concelho, presents varioue architectural styles -Neo-classical, Romantic and Pombaline.

The building was design by the Marquês de Pombal, between 1770 and 1774 and was the residence of Queen Maria I, when in Lisbon.

The building contains various simbols of republican ideology, and suffered two fires, in 1863 and 1996, being after each occurence completely reconstructed.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Water foam

This is the pic of flood tide against cutwater on the Caparica Beach in South Bank of Lisboa, today at a lovely afternoon.


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