Pink hibiscus flourishing in a graceful terracotta pot beside the entrance to an old house, painted in typically Portuguese white and blue, in a stepped cobbled alley within the medieval fortifications surrounding Óbidos, Centro, Portugal.
Óbidos, Centro, Portugal: warm terracotta contrasts with pink hibiscus flowers and the whitewashed walls and typically Portuguese painted blue plinth of a traditional house, with a round-arched doorway and granite window surrounds, in a stepped cobbled street or alley of this medieval town. The name Óbidos derives from the Latin “oppidum”, meaning “walled city”. It was founded much earlier, during the Celtic period in Portugal, and it only became a Roman possession in the 1st century AD, when it was called Eburobrittium. The Romans were followed by the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes in the 5th century. The Moors took over in the 8th century before Portugal’s first king, Alphonso Henriques, conquered the town in 1149. Óbidos is known as the “wedding present town” because it was a gift King Dinis gave to Queen Isabel on their wedding day in 1282. Óbidos then became the property of Portuguese queens until the 1800s.
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Location: Óbidos, Centro, Portugal
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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