In Portugal, a group of 30 members traveled from the Montespan Leisure Club at the beginning of October. This country, whose borders have remained unchanged since the thirteenth century, is full of architectural beauty, as evidenced by the traces left by various conquests from the Celts to the Arabs (fortifications, monuments, walls, etc.), fertile plains and valleys. The green forests and the enormous beaches.
Departing Tuesday 4am by bus and after stopping in Salamanca, Spain, welcome to Portugal!
Commingeois were welcomed into Mira in an impressive hotel complex where the group will depart in the mornings from 5th to 8th on excursions to discover Portuguese cities, aided by excellent French speaking guides. Visit Coimbra, a medieval city with two entities: one low trading and the other a very high and large university centre. Then the most beautiful beaches of the fishing port of Nazareth and its high cliff.
Journey also to Fatima which, thanks to the three young priests, was recognized as a place of miracles by the Church, a strange place, vast, pure white, pure.
You must visit Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, the cradle of the nation, the city of colorful houses, the economic capital in the center listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And of course, taste its famous wines from the Douro Valley! Finally Lisbon, the political capital on the ocean’s edge and its custodian in charge of monitoring access to the port: the beautiful Belém Tower. A city with beautiful buildings covered in blue and white tiles, azulejos, making up real paintings.
All in sad fado, cheerful and cheerful folklore and dance evenings punctuated by busy days.
Return to France, still touristy, with a stop at the 3-time fortified town of Zamora, with its beautiful 12th-century Romanesque churches. For Commingeois, it was a very interesting journey full of discoveries in all areas, in this country of contrasts, its integration into the European Union after a past of discoveries in the New World, the dictatorship of Salazar and the Carnation Revolution.
