| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Joao Abreu (Joao_Abreu) (84) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-07-12 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-07-20 15:56 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
SESIMBRA, A LITTLE OF HIS HISTORY Town of the District of Setúbal, was conquered to the Moors by D. Sancho I, received privilege in 1201 and was donated to the riders of the Order of Sant' Iago in 1260. D. Dinis elevated it the town in 1323.
To its maritime tradition is secular. Already in the glorious epoch of the Discoverers, the pilots of Sesimbra were considered very skillful and experts of his position, of the shipyards of this town left boats that furrowed all of the oceans and caused to our civilization to everybody.
Town piscatória and tourist situates-itself in a small bay in the Western foot of the Mountain Range of the Arrábida. The row of houses drains for the slope up to beach, sheltered of the winds of the north his climate is smooth and Mediterranean.
Sesimbra is one of the main ports piscatórios, Who itself dispuzer it accompany of nearby the work of the activities of the fishing, will find for itself alone reason for pass some beneficial and pleasant vacation.
It goes to Sesimbra in search of the sardinhadas, of the caldeiradas, of the closeness, of the fresh shellfish, goes á beach in search of the bronze, of the baths of sea, of the fishermen that deal with the devices of fishing, goes in search of the boats that rest in the waters calms of the bay.
It seeks itself the joy of the brink sea, a universe infinitely I live, where the bustle is part of the daily life, where to descontação reigns where the shorts, to t-shirt, the slippers are kings, there is not place for false The esplanades boil of people the coffee and to imperial have another flavor and the nights become lukewarm.
Do not leave however without see Sesimbra of the sea, without see in in the foreground the blue sea, the fishing fleet coloring and the boats of recreation, afterwards in flat second, the stretch of the row of houses of the town that being held tight for the slope all she turned for the sea.
Gina |
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