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Forcing myself to take a break in my hike through Bairro Alto, I choose the outdoor cafe at Miradouro de Santa Catarina. Sitting above the riverfront looking down on Cais do Sodre, I am rewarded with a panorama of the Tagus River. To my right…
A quiet corner in the Jardin Borda, a large series of gardens near the Cathedral in Cuernavaca. The gardens were started by an 18th-century mining family, and extended by an heir with a bent for botany. By the 1860s, the house and gardens had become…
Forcing myself to take a break in my hike through Bairro Alto, I choose the outdoor cafe at Miradouro de Santa Catarina. Sitting above the riverfront looking down on Cais do Sodre, I am rewarded with a panorama of the Tagus River. To my right…
A quiet corner in the Jardin Borda, a large series of gardens near the Cathedral in Cuernavaca. The gardens were started by an 18th-century mining family, and extended by an heir with a bent for botany. By the 1860s, the house and gardens had become…