Obidos, Portugal

Today we took a day trip from Lisbon out to Óbidos where Ursula got stuck atop the ancient walls of the city as she is afraid of height. Stacy had to coax her down. We were happy to find a few hand painted tiles that we shipped home. Fun day.

Obidos is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval villages or walled towns. The name Óbidos derives from the Latin oppidum, meaning “walled city.”

This quaint village dates back to Portugal's Celtic period, and was only later taken over by the Romans in the 1st century AD. They created the Roman city of Eburobrittium, and were followed by the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes in the 5th century. The Moors took it over in the 8th century, and finally Portugal’s first king, Afonso Henriques, conquered it in 1149. It then became property of Portuguese queens until the 1800s.Weiterlesen