Cobbled street in the heart of the fortified medieval town of Óbidos, Centro, Portugal, lined with traditional houses painted in typically Portuguese blue and white.
Óbidos, Centro, Portugal: traditional granite and stone rubble houses painted in typically Portuguese blue and white lining a cobbled street of this medieval fortified town, with pink roses climbing above a garden wall and upper windows flanked by pots of red geraniums. 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.
Size: 4912px × 7360px
Location: Óbidos, Centro, Portugal
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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