Ericeira
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As Praias de Portugal: Guia do Banhista e do Viajante
Com desenhos de Emílo Pimental, esta obra icónica de Ramalho Ortigão é certamente o primeiro guia exaustivo das praias portuguesas.
View full work detailsSe exceptuarmos Olhão, no Algarve, é esta a terra mais asseada de Portugal. As ruas estão escrupulosamente varridas como as de um jardim. As mais pequenas casas têm as vidraças nitidamente lavadas e as paredes exteriores caiadas de branco. Quase ao meio da vila, sobranceira ao mar, fica num alto a capela de Santo António, circundada de bancos, ponto de …
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38.970735, -9.416159
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When Ramalho Ortigão visits Ericeira outside the bathing season, in the late nineteenth century, he finds a town that surprises him with its uniqueness in the national panorama. "If we except Olhão, in the Algarve, this is the cleanest land in Portugal," writes the chronicler, impressed by streets "scrupulously swept like those of a garden," windows "clearly washed," and exterior walls whitewashed.
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