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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 57: Porto In the second century AD, the Romans called it Portus Cale — the twin port complex at the mouth of the Douro river, with Portus on the northern bank and Cale on the southern bank. Over the following seven […]
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 56: Coimbra Every evening at closing time, the librarians of the Biblioteca Joanina spread leather sheets across the reading tables to protect them, and open the small ventilation apertures under the roof. Small bats fly in from the surrounding gardens and
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 55: Lisbon On the morning of All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, at approximately 9:40 in the morning, an earthquake of estimated magnitude 8.5 to 9.0 struck 200 kilometres off the coast of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean. The initial shaking
Lisbon 🇵🇹 Why Europe’s Greatest City Was Almost Completely Gone Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 54: Évora Inside the Igreja de São Francisco in Évora, three Franciscan friars in the early 1600s built a small chapel eighteen metres long by eleven metres wide. They decorated its walls, columns, and ceiling with the exhumed skeletons of approximately
Évora 🇵🇹 This Portugal Chapel Made Me Uncomfortable Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 53: Lagos Between 1418 and 1460, a small Portuguese port on the southern Algarve coast served as the operational base for a systematic project of Atlantic exploration that produced, across four decades, the first coherent European maps of the African coast,
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 52: Madeira Every serious wine on Earth is protected from heat. Winemakers build cellars underground to keep temperatures stable at twelve degrees. Heat destroys aromatics, oxidises colour, degrades acidity. Everyone knows this. Except on one Portuguese island in the mid-Atlantic, where
Madeira 🇵🇹 The Only Wine on Earth That Gets Better When Cooked Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 51: Chefchaouen Chefchaouen — sometimes spelled Chaouen or Xauen — is a small town in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, population approximately 42,000, situated at 564 metres altitude in a small valley below two mountain peaks that give the town its name (the
Chefchaouen 🇲🇦 The Town That Was Closed to Outsiders for 450 Years Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 50: Rabat Rabat is the political capital of Morocco, the seat of the Moroccan monarchy since 1912, and the diplomatic centre of the country, hosting over ninety embassies and giving it one of the largest concentrations of diplomatic missions in Africa. It sits on
Rabat 🇲🇦 The Capital That Contains Twelve Centuries in Twelve Kilometres Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 49: Casablanca Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco, the largest port on the North African Atlantic coast, and one of the largest cities in Africa. The commune has a population of approximately 3.7 million; the greater metropolitan area is close to 4.4 million.
Casablanca 🇲🇦 The Largest City in Morocco That Barely Existed in 1907 Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 48: Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third-largest of the seven Canary Islands — 1,560 square kilometres, roughly the size of the American state of Rhode Island — and sits approximately two hundred kilometres off the Moroccan coast, at the same latitude as the
Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 Six Ecosystems, Four Cultures, One Volcano Read More »