Azambuja
Pelo Ribatejo fora começaram as debulhas, e de momento se descobrem na loura planície, entre as medas e as paveias, as grandes récuas de cavalos à guia, trotando em círculo nas eiras. Na Azambuja, por detrás da pequena estação do caminho de ferro, há um belo arraial de carroças, de diligências, de char-à-bancs e de caleches, que o sol a …
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39.069305, -8.869164
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When Ramalho Ortigão crosses Azambuja in the late nineteenth century, he finds a Ribatejo landscape in full threshing season: "in the golden plain, among the haystacks and sheaves, the great strings of horses being led, trotting in circles on the threshing floors."
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