What is left of the city wall.
Looking down on the waterfront.
Portuguese blue tile art in train station.
From the upper city to the lower.
Old church next to Bishop’s palace.
More blue tile art.
It was a busy day in the city. Along the waterfront they had a motor bike obstical course/competition, so it packed. In the city square they had a celebration for the city’s soccer team who had just won the national championship.
On the tour we went in the old cloister convent. It has over 1,000 lbs of gold. It is across a square from the old monastery. Apparently there are tunnels in the city for river drainage, and one connects the two buildings. The city also had a large orphanage. The story is that there were lots of “immaculate conceptions” with the cloistered sisters. The babies would be deposited at the orphanage’s lazy Susan door so no one would know where they came from.
Walked across this bridge, took cable car down to dinner on south bank of river.
Main city square.
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