Saturday, 4 June 2011

Medieval walled towns Portugal




Explored the towns of Obidos & Evora, two old walled cities.   In Evora they had dug up thousands of skeletons of monks that had died over hundreds of years and built a chapel whose interior walls were completely constructed of bones. The inscription over the entrance translated roughly to " You who look at us now will soon be joining us", to show how short our lives are.     

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