Portugal

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PORTUGAL
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
Over 115 Color Photographs
Golden beaches lapped by seas of lapis-lazuli blue, the fragrance of pine and eucalyptus, acres of orange groves and vineyards, olive trees and cork oaks all these linger in the memory of the visitor to Portugal, this land of sunshine and warm and welcoming people. Whilst industrialisation and modernisation, essential to a country that has to compete in the 20th century, must inevitably bring changes, the country's glorious history is nevertheless still evidenced in its art and architecture, literature and cuisine: legacies from a succession of invaders and immigrants — Romans. Barbarians. Moors. Sephardic Jews. Burgundians and Castilians — all of whom left their influence on this fascinating land.
Everything in Portugal, seems, in some way. to be closely associated with the sea — a sea that fired the imagination of her renowned explorers and navigators, whose laden ships were brought home to port filled... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PORTUGAL
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
Over 115 Color Photographs
Golden beaches lapped by seas of lapis-lazuli blue, the fragrance of pine and eucalyptus, acres of orange groves and vineyards, olive trees and cork oaks all these linger in the memory of the visitor to Portugal, this land of sunshine and warm and welcoming people. Whilst industrialisation and modernisation, essential to a country that has to compete in the 20th century, must inevitably bring changes, the country's glorious history is nevertheless still evidenced in its art and architecture, literature and cuisine: legacies from a succession of invaders and immigrants — Romans. Barbarians. Moors. Sephardic Jews. Burgundians and Castilians — all of whom left their influence on this fascinating land.
Everything in Portugal, seems, in some way. to be closely associated with the sea — a sea that fired the imagination of her renowned explorers and navigators, whose laden ships were brought home to port filled with valuable cargoes of sugar, silks and spices, exotic plants and trees and exquisite treasures from lands afar, and which today yields an abundance of sea foods, with a variety and quantity of excellent fish, that provide a valuable source of income for its picturesque fishing villages.
Portugal's magnificent and varied scenery, its castles and palaces, busy ports and sleepy villages, and the quiet dignity of its people, have all been captured in the superb colour photographs within this book and afford a glimpse of this special country that has yet maintained its individuality and beauty. Vissza