Lisbon


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Lisbon's relative proximity to Africa led to a prolonged period of Moorish occupation until 1147. The city enjoyed untold wealth during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but was devastated by the earthquake in 1755. Portugal's accession to the European Community and Lisbon's subsequent choice both as the European City of Culture (1994) and as the site for the international Expo '98 have brought the city into the European mainstream.










The Stranger's Guide in Lisbon, Or an Historical and Descriptive View of the City of Lisbon and Its Environs


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Excerpt from The Stranger's Guide in Lisbon, or an Historical and Descriptive View of the City of Lisbon and Its Environs: With Notices of the Chief Places of Interest in Estremadura The want ofa small work serving as a guide to this Capital and its environs has long been feltand complained of by British visitors to Lisbon. The following Stran gcr's Guide is intended to supply in some measure this desideratum. - The object is to form such a compendium of the history, curiosities, antiquities and topography of Lisbon, as may combine accurate and ample information with suitable brevity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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The Examiner


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