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The Praça Dom Pedro IV is a busy square of Lisbon. Once used as a cattle market, a public execution center, bullfight arena and carnival ground, is now a preferred meeting place of Lisbon natives and tourists alike. It was quite smoky this week as I was visiting, since the street vendors were roasting chestnuts.
In the center of the Praça is the statue of Dom Pedro IV, a Portuguese king who proclaimed Brazil independent from Portugal and became Brazil's first Emperor as Pedro I. I briefly looked at his biography and I was surprised to read that, although he only lived to be 36 years of age, he was married twice, he had 8 children...and 9 illegitimate children...
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire! We tend to boil them here in France. I'm actually off to the market right now. I'll just have to pick up some chestnuts for lunch. Happy PFF and thanks for joining!
ReplyDeleteWe have nothing like this in America. Grand scenery.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful sight.......saw a few of these in my 2 visits to germany.
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Roasting chestnuts! I can smell them now..... I used to live beside some woodlands, and we would go to gather chestnuts then roast them on our log fire.
ReplyDeleteI tried to roast chestnuts once and made a big mess when I tried to peel them. I would like to try again sometime, but it seems like chestnuts are hardly ever sold where I live.
ReplyDeletehow beautiful! Love the concept of postcard friday.
ReplyDeletePortugal is someplace I'd really love to visit. Bucket List Alert!
ReplyDeleteMyyyyyyy he was busy! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely postcard!
What a beautiful postcard perfect shot.
ReplyDeleteWow on his progeny. He was a prolific breeder.
Beautiful square and I bet it smelled wonderful with the chestnuts.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Dom Pedro died of exhaustion.
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Wow ! that looks so beautiful ! I really have to visit Lisbon too !
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful sky, you know you can match to another Friday theme I joined. The Skywatch Friday!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing stunning postcard with perfect sky shot.
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What a wonderful place--thank you for the historical setting behind it--compared to now-a-days. Happy pff!
ReplyDeleteLove the fountain. Beautiful photo!
ReplyDeleteLove this picturesque meeting place. I would feel like royalty if I were able to loiter beside it everyday.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, Lisbon is very high on the list of places I want to go.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post card - never had one from Lisbon you know!
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