August 4, 2008, in
Travel and Places
Following the acclamation of Afonso Henriques in Ourique by his comrades-in-arms, the king decides to adopt different military strategies in the conquest of territory from the Moors and initiates a new process of political, diplomatic and even matrimonial negotiations with the objective of asserting his sovereign power, imposing Portugal’s independence from other Spanish kingdoms and, [...]
August 1, 2008, in
Travel and Places
A really good morning in Algarve… A tribute to my friend Victor
