4481 Portugal.
4483 The Portuguese soul through its banknotes.
4484 And the coins.
4485 Conimbriga. Roman ruins. More palpable than those of Caerleon, but >>>>>nothing to compare with American archaeology.
4485 Portuguese broadcasting - with no hope of hearing Portuguese music.
4486 Toward an encounter with Columbus in Portugal.
4486 A whole imponent monastery built as fulfilment of a royal promise to >>>>>Saint Mary.
4487 Another monastery.  Another royal gratitude for another victory.
4487 Vandalism and plundering of signore Napoleon Buenaparte.
4489 Cabo da Roca.
     First European land spotted by Columbus upon his return from Voyage I.
4489 End of grandiose Columbus's return I - with king João II of Portugal >>>>>itself ... enemy of Isabel and Fernando.
4495 The oddity of the many Corterreales and Newfoundland.
4498 How could the Behaim globe, published in 1492, show Newfoundland and >>>>>environs, discovered in 1500 or 1497, and the Hudson Bay, discovered in >>>>>1610?
4498 Maping some transatlantic islands, in 1424.
4499 When shall the truth be known? 
     The Canadian Northern Passage traveled, in 1588, by the Spaniard Lorenzo >>>>>Ferrer Maldonado, with, or following two years later, the Portuguese>João >>>>>Martins - over 300 years before Roald Amundsen.
4507 Was there really clandestine Portuguese traffic beetweeen Portuguese >>>>>Africa and the yet officially undiscovered South America?
4507 Portuguese nautical science, actually Judeo-Arab-Portuguese.
4507 In view of the Portuguese successes, Venice negotiates with Egypt the >>>>>excavation of a Suez Canal.
4508 Portuguese monastery of Arrábida.
     Its recommendation of Columbus to the Spanish monastery of La Rábida.
4509 Setúbal.  Same nonsense in Europe: museum closed on Sundays, when most >>>>>people could visit it.
4511 In other latitudes, trucks with monumental loads of cotton, sugar cane; >>>>>here, of cork.
4511 Getting educated in megalithic chambers, in this area which seems to be >>>>>the birthplace of European megalithism.
4514 Parade in Columbus-time apparel.
4514 Évora.  Peristyle of Roman temple.  Interesting but not captivating.
4514 Fascination with skulls is not exclusivity of pre-Columbian "savages".  >>>>>We see the same in Europe.
4515 Yes, in Portugal we heard on the radio the Russian "Bolshoi" pronounced >>>>>French style.  Why did we get horrified when, in Central America, we >>>>>heard the Italian "I Musici" pronounced English style?
4515 Same as in America, in Europe also the injust habit of exalting in >>>>>exclusivity some works and completely ignoring others.
4516 Finally, an exquisite small plaza as in Iberian America.
4517/4548  Cuba.  Not the island.  The small town in Portugal. 
     Fascinating argumentations (so intertwined that one cannot see how they >>>>>could be invented or detracted from) that the noble Portuguese bastard, >>>>>future runaway from justice, and future discoverer, Salvadôr Gonçalves >>>>>Zarco - known as Christopher Columbus - was born here and could not have >>>>>been>born in Genova.
4548 Beja.  Yes, they do exist (as it had been affirmed to us in New England >>>>>by those convinced of ancient Keltiberic voyages to New England) >>>>>those stones similar here and there.
4549 Portuguese people, affable, even solicitous; but without that supreme >>>>>Brazilian>spark.  Spark, therefore, autochthonous, not inherited from >>>>>Portugal.
4550 Portuguese language in Portugal, harder than the Portuguese in Brazil.
4551 Why are they not more widespread internationally, those pictorial glazed >>>>>tiles?
4552 Supermarkets: worse than supermarkets of same size in America.  But, >>>>>salted codfish, of that there are mountains.
4553 Small stop.  A neighbor, instead of calling anonymously the police, >>>>>Vespuccian-type, gives us a honeycomb.