Portugal: Songs of Sea and Stone

Date: 04/10/2025
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Portugal leans into the Atlantic with the confidence of a poet who has nothing to prove. Lisbon hums with fado, a music stitched from longing and salt. Its streets tilt and tumble, tiled in blue and white mosaics that tell centuries of stories. Farther north, Porto offers wine kissed by the Douro River, while fishing villages cling to the coast with nets drying in the sun. The Algarve glows with golden cliffs, caves carved by patient waves. Yet beyond landscapes, Portugal is a country of gestures — a grandmother’s bread, a fisherman’s nod, a stranger’s warm “bom dia.” In Western Europe’s mosaic, Portugal is both edge and center: an intimate reminder that the sea carries away, but it also always returns.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah, Guwahati, Assam, India
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