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I live in a little town (50 000 or 60 000 inhabitants) in Portugal. 50 meters away from my apartment building there's a 6 000 years old pre-historical construction (dolmen) in plain sight.
Above 10000 population its a city (cidade). 2000 to 10000 makes a town (vila), less than 2000 is a village (aldeia). I believe this numbers to be true though sometimes there's politics involved in what makes a particular habited place a city, town or village. I have no idea if there is a legal definition for a lugar or lugarejo (hamlets) or those,are just remnants of the older administrative regions dating to before 1928.
I live in a city called Almada. It was founded by the moors in the 8th century but if you looked at it you would never guess it as there is no ancient vestigues from the middle ages. Most of it is made of buildings madr since the 1940s with some 200 years old buildings in the old town. There are archeological evidences of human occupation dating back to the carthageneans in the 6th century BCE but those were covered up again after being dug out and studied in the late 1980s because they were in a public used space at Cacilhas.
Great video! This is why I love other countries like Portugal. Full of history. Very rare to see a building that will last more than a hundred years in the US where I’ve seen pig pens that were older than the US. Very cool.
If you want to see other well preserved Roman ruins you'll have to come further north and visit Vila Cardílio (Torres Novas) and Conímbriga (Condeixa, near Coimbra). 🙂
Hi. You realy need to go to Conimbriga (near Coimbra city - beautiful city. The University students city. ) that was a Roman city from 129 BC. Then if possible you need to visit Marvão. Go for a weekend. Its in alto alentejo near the Spain border.
Visit Conimbriga too: layers of history since Bronze age, IX and VIII B.C., which was an important center during the Roman Republic and which continued to be inhabited at least until the 9th century.
That seems amazing! I visited those Roman ruins almost 30 years agor, but I went by car. That hike seems fun to do. Now that you're in Porto, you can drive up to Marco de Canavezes (about 60km) and visit the Roman ruins in Tongobriga, in the village of Freixo. If you like ancient ruins, in the north of Portugal you have lots of "Castros" and "Citânias", which are pre-Roman Celtic settlements. They're well worth the visit.
On my Mother city, Évora, Alentejo province, there is a roman temple from the I Century a.JC. well preserved. It was dedicated to the emperor Cesar Augustus.
Hi Chris and Melissa! If you get the chance visit Piodão in Arganil. Piodão is a little village on a mountain where every house is made of a stone we call "xisto", it has breathtaking views and amazing river beaches. There you totally get the sense of the 19th century lifestyle, it is one of our hidden gems that not many people know about, the whole area is stunning and very peaceful, i am sure you will enjoy it!
What part of Portugal are you living? I'm enjoying your hike. Brings me memories of the time I lived there in Colares which is near Sintra and then in Cascais. Lovely memories. Wish all the best. Don't forget 😅to go to Évora,where there is a group of stonehenges older than the ones in Britain. fantastic Óbidos. Happy for you.
Hey Chris, started to watch some of your videos recently… I’m very happy that you and Melissa are enjoying my country. BTW, you always kinda look like Mark Hammill on your video thumbnails, it caught my attention I was thinking: “So Mark Hamill is moving to Portugal too? Nice!” 😅
Santiago do Cacém is placed in a region called Alentejo. In terms of territory it is by far the largest occupy8ng 1/3rd of the entire country but with a population of only 700 thousand habitants it is also the least densely populated as well (not the least populated, that would be either the Madeira or the Açores islands). The people from this region are collectively called the alentejanos. Though they are often charicaturized (even by themselves) the Alentejo region is actually very diversified, thus being divided into 4 regions: litoral, alto, center and baixo alentejo. The litorsl.alentejo region alone is larger than Algarve with a coast almost as extensive.
Hi there. Nice video. I hope you enjoyed the walk. There are much more Roman. There are plenty or Roman ruins in Portugal. Not all well preseved. But just 3 weeks ago i made a small tour for Santiago da Guarda, Rabaçal and Conimbriga. When you have the chance, visit these places. Conimbriga everybody knows about, but Santiago da Guarda is still "a secret".
Guys, some suggestions: you should do the historical villages in Guarda district (monsanto, sordelha, trancoso); Portalegre (castelo de vide, Marvao, arraiolos) Évora (Evora proper, Alandroal, Monsaraz, alqueva lake) Serra da estrela Convent day-trip (Batalha, Alcobaça, Tomar, passing by Óbidos) This is just south and central Portugal, I'll give you more tips later xD
I'm continuously baffled why your subs are still so low. Your channel should be blowing up by now with the amount of effort / travel/ good editing and fantastic editing. I've said this before, but you need to piggyback on others somewhat similar channels to gain more subscribers! I continue to give my "thumbs up" on your every post .
Thanks for the kind words. RUclips is a tough thing. With the term, piggybacking, do you mean collaborations? If so, that's something we just started to work on. We have one lined up for this fall. If you mean something else, then please elaborate. :) Common sense tells me that if we make a video that we are proud of and enjoyed making, then the views will come. We do want to get better at thumbnails and titles and get a better click through rate, but we also don't want to just create videos because the experts tell us the algorithm says you should do this and that to get views. Nothing worthwhile happens quickly. Sometimes it's hard. It's been expensive and sometimes feels like we might be stupid as we're not saving our money for retirement, we're spending it on travel! :D. Lovely, supportive comments like yours help a ton. Thank you for your support.
Love your videos. Welcome and enjoy Portugal. Also fun fact... Tavira´s Roman bridge is not Roman. It was built in the middle ages, but legend has it that it was built in the same place as the original Roman bridge that was said to have been built in the III century, however there are no records (written or otherwise) of the existence of the bridge. Anyways thank you for your videos.
Back in roman times the region roughtly similiar to today's Portugal was the roman province of Lusithania. The southern and center regions were heavily romanized but the northern part pretty much remained celtiberic until the fall of the western roman empire. This added to the fact the southern part remsined moorish for a longer time gives to Portugal two distinctive regional and cultural divisions between the north and south of Portugal. Its hard to say where the divide lies, some think its at the Tejo river others at the Mondego river. For me those are academic as i dislike divisionalism based on regionalisms. That said i'm very proud of my southern portuguese roots though my family surname is native to the center region in the mountain range region of the Serra da Estrela.
Sao Tiago de Cacem ( Cacem kussueen) try this pronunciation inphases on the last syllable. Should tell us viewer s where in Portugal. Somehow I never heard of.s. Tiago de Cacem' ruins, I been in most of Portugal.
That very first car imported to Portugal had some funny stories, one of them happened on its first trip, when it´s owner drove it from the port of Lisbon to his place in Santiago do Cacém and, at around Palmela he ran over a donkey at 15 Km/h (vehicle top speed) and killed it, having to pay for it. So you can see where the so called Portuguese bad driving comes from.
@@chrisplusmelissa its difilcult especially to english natives. but you are trying and that is great. Santiago do cheese make me laf . great videos , you are a great couple ,waiting for more videos. 🥂
@@chrisplusmelissa speak to portuguese people , its izzy if you try with the brazilian pronounce they speake a more open pronounciation like americans . whe the portuguese , eat letters 🤪.
@@chrisplusmelissa when americans say my midle name i smille a lot . try to say and the leasing in your ap. you gonna laf a lot. PIRES is the same word of the litle plate with came when you drink a expresso coup . when english speakers say looks they have a mouth full of food.
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Lovely hiking! I’ve learned that Portugal also has hundreds of Megalithic structures. Really enjoying your videos😉
Thank you. :)
Essa caminhada pelo Alentejo é só Saúde
No fim até parecem mais bonitos!❤
I live in a little town (50 000 or 60 000 inhabitants) in Portugal. 50 meters away from my apartment building there's a 6 000 years old pre-historical construction (dolmen) in plain sight.
That is so cool.
Above 10000 population its a city (cidade). 2000 to 10000 makes a town (vila), less than 2000 is a village (aldeia). I believe this numbers to be true though sometimes there's politics involved in what makes a particular habited place a city, town or village. I have no idea if there is a legal definition for a lugar or lugarejo (hamlets) or those,are just remnants of the older administrative regions dating to before 1928.
I live in a city called Almada. It was founded by the moors in the 8th century but if you looked at it you would never guess it as there is no ancient vestigues from the middle ages. Most of it is made of buildings madr since the 1940s with some 200 years old buildings in the old town. There are archeological evidences of human occupation dating back to the carthageneans in the 6th century BCE but those were covered up again after being dug out and studied in the late 1980s because they were in a public used space at Cacilhas.
It's really awesome to watch an American couple exploring this amazing country. I wish you a great time.
Thank you José!
Great video! This is why I love other countries like Portugal. Full of history. Very rare to see a building that will last more than a hundred years in the US where I’ve seen pig pens that were older than the US. Very cool.
It is amazing to me each and every time I see an old structure built so many years or shall I say centuries ago.
Like many have said, you HAVE to visit the Roman city of Conimbriga. That really will blow your socks off!
WELL DONE ....DISCOVERYING VERY UNIC PLACES ! CONGRATS ! AFTER THAT WALK .IM SURE YOU FEEL TO HAVE A NICE PORTUGUESE STEAK !😅
If you want to see other well preserved Roman ruins you'll have to come further north and visit Vila Cardílio (Torres Novas) and Conímbriga (Condeixa, near Coimbra). 🙂
I'm certain some day soon!
Hi. You realy need to go to Conimbriga (near Coimbra city - beautiful city. The University students city. ) that was a Roman city from 129 BC.
Then if possible you need to visit Marvão. Go for a weekend. Its in alto alentejo near the Spain border.
oh btw 15 minutes from Evora is a place called "Cromelec dos Almendres" the so called portuguese "Stonehenge",enjoy
That looks awesome!
Visit Conimbriga too: layers of history since Bronze age, IX and VIII B.C., which was an important center during the Roman Republic and which continued to be inhabited at least until the 9th century.
That seems amazing! I visited those Roman ruins almost 30 years agor, but I went by car. That hike seems fun to do. Now that you're in Porto, you can drive up to Marco de Canavezes (about 60km) and visit the Roman ruins in Tongobriga, in the village of Freixo. If you like ancient ruins, in the north of Portugal you have lots of "Castros" and "Citânias", which are pre-Roman Celtic settlements. They're well worth the visit.
Those were sheep.. maybe goats. That’s my town, loved the video
On my Mother city, Évora, Alentejo province, there is a roman temple from the I Century a.JC. well preserved. It was dedicated to the emperor Cesar Augustus.
We are very interested in going there some day to see it.
em Portugal temos muitos edifícios históricos, com quinhentos anos, e alguns com mais...
Marvão and the roman city of Ammaia 👌
Hi Chris and Melissa! If you get the chance visit Piodão in Arganil. Piodão is a little village on a mountain where every house is made of a stone we call "xisto", it has breathtaking views and amazing river beaches. There you totally get the sense of the 19th century lifestyle, it is one of our hidden gems that not many people know about, the whole area is stunning and very peaceful, i am sure you will enjoy it!
Ooooh. That does look nice. Do you have any restaurant recommendations for that area?
@@chrisplusmelissa If you want to try some of the region's delicacies O Fontinha restaurant is a great option.
There is also Badoca Safari Park nearby. Africa inside Portugal
Thank you! I just looked that up. It looks like quite the place. We'll be adding that to our list of places to check out!
What part of Portugal are you living? I'm enjoying your hike. Brings me memories of the time I lived there in Colares which is near Sintra and then in Cascais. Lovely memories. Wish all the best. Don't forget 😅to go to Évora,where there is a group of stonehenges older than the ones in Britain. fantastic Óbidos.
Happy for you.
We're living in Porto now. We were living in Albufeira when we did the hike. Evora and Obidos are definitely on our list of places to visit!
Hey Chris, started to watch some of your videos recently…
I’m very happy that you and Melissa are enjoying my country. BTW, you always kinda look like Mark Hammill on your video thumbnails, it caught my attention I was thinking: “So Mark Hamill is moving to Portugal too? Nice!” 😅
The force is strong in Portugal. :D
I live near santiago, you were right near me ahah
Santiago do Cacém is placed in a region called Alentejo. In terms of territory it is by far the largest occupy8ng 1/3rd of the entire country but with a population of only 700 thousand habitants it is also the least densely populated as well (not the least populated, that would be either the Madeira or the Açores islands). The people from this region are collectively called the alentejanos. Though they are often charicaturized (even by themselves) the Alentejo region is actually very diversified, thus being divided into 4 regions: litoral, alto, center and baixo alentejo. The litorsl.alentejo region alone is larger than Algarve with a coast almost as extensive.
Thank you for all that info. It is appreciated!
Good hike/ video!
Thank you!
Hi there. Nice video. I hope you enjoyed the walk. There are much more Roman. There are plenty or Roman ruins in Portugal. Not all well preseved. But just 3 weeks ago i made a small tour for Santiago da Guarda, Rabaçal and Conimbriga. When you have the chance, visit these places. Conimbriga everybody knows about, but Santiago da Guarda is still "a secret".
Thanks for the tips!
Loved this hike with you! More areas for us to explore in country someday ❤️🇵🇹
It was a lot of fun for sure.
Welcome next time don't forget to make a safari at Santiago do Cacém municipality in Badoka Park.
Guys, some suggestions:
you should do the historical villages in Guarda district (monsanto, sordelha, trancoso);
Portalegre (castelo de vide, Marvao, arraiolos)
Évora (Evora proper, Alandroal, Monsaraz, alqueva lake)
Serra da estrela
Convent day-trip (Batalha, Alcobaça, Tomar, passing by Óbidos)
This is just south and central Portugal, I'll give you more tips later xD
U should visit the roman tunels in lisbon beautiful musium underground!👌💯
Where do we get tickets? Do you have a website?
I dont think it was wind chimes but bells that are usually put on the necks of cattle like cows and sheep. I know that sound since childhood.
This was a nice very informative hike/tour. Amazed how there were no people in the streets. Did you organize that Melissa??😁
:D Melissa does have good organization skills.
Melisa were you happy with the size of the kitchen in the Roman villa?
😆
Go to Conimbriga near the city of Coimbra
I'm continuously baffled why your subs are still so low. Your channel should be blowing up by now with the amount of effort / travel/ good editing and fantastic editing.
I've said this before, but you need to piggyback on others somewhat similar channels to gain more subscribers!
I continue to give my "thumbs up" on your every post .
Thanks for the kind words. RUclips is a tough thing. With the term, piggybacking, do you mean collaborations? If so, that's something we just started to work on. We have one lined up for this fall. If you mean something else, then please elaborate. :)
Common sense tells me that if we make a video that we are proud of and enjoyed making, then the views will come. We do want to get better at thumbnails and titles and get a better click through rate, but we also don't want to just create videos because the experts tell us the algorithm says you should do this and that to get views.
Nothing worthwhile happens quickly.
Sometimes it's hard. It's been expensive and sometimes feels like we might be stupid as we're not saving our money for retirement, we're spending it on travel! :D. Lovely, supportive comments like yours help a ton. Thank you for your support.
Love your videos. Welcome and enjoy Portugal. Also fun fact... Tavira´s Roman bridge is not Roman. It was built in the middle ages, but legend has it that it was built in the same place as the original Roman bridge that was said to have been built in the III century, however there are no records (written or otherwise) of the existence of the bridge. Anyways thank you for your videos.
Obrigado Rui!
amazing location always wanted to travel there ...
It was so very cool.
Back in roman times the region roughtly similiar to today's Portugal was the roman province of Lusithania. The southern and center regions were heavily romanized but the northern part pretty much remained celtiberic until the fall of the western roman empire. This added to the fact the southern part remsined moorish for a longer time gives to Portugal two distinctive regional and cultural divisions between the north and south of Portugal. Its hard to say where the divide lies, some think its at the Tejo river others at the Mondego river. For me those are academic as i dislike divisionalism based on regionalisms. That said i'm very proud of my southern portuguese roots though my family surname is native to the center region in the mountain range region of the Serra da Estrela.
ronan ruins = coninbriga, near coimbra , fantastic
You're pretty safe to get lost in Portugal, enjoy this beautiful Country.
Thank you! 😃
❤
Sao Tiago de Cacem ( Cacem kussueen) try this pronunciation inphases on the last syllable. Should tell us viewer s where in Portugal. Somehow I never heard of.s. Tiago de Cacem' ruins, I been in most of Portugal.
You don't know how I was amused to see two norte americans walking so much.
We have purposely been trying to find places to stay that allow us to walk to do most of what we like to do.
quem não conhece o norte não conhece Portugal, pois foi aqui que tudo começou...
That very first car imported to Portugal had some funny stories, one of them happened on its first trip, when it´s owner drove it from the port of Lisbon to his place in Santiago do Cacém and, at around Palmela he ran over a donkey at 15 Km/h (vehicle top speed) and killed it, having to pay for it. So you can see where the so called Portuguese bad driving comes from.
:D
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To say Santiago do Cacém right, just open up the second "e" and ad a nasal sound to the "m" . You ll be ok.
You couldn't have seen roman ruins in ireland because they never made it to ireland except as traders
Typical Portuguese trail markings! Thank you Google Maps
funny lissing you say caçem sound queijo (cheese) 😂😂
We are having a tough time with pronouncing Portuguese words correctly. (Me (Chris), mostly) We'll work on getting better.
@@chrisplusmelissa its difilcult especially to english natives. but you are trying and that is great. Santiago do cheese make me laf . great videos , you are a great couple ,waiting for more videos. 🥂
@@chrisplusmelissa speak to portuguese people , its izzy if you try with the brazilian pronounce they speake a more open pronounciation like americans . whe the portuguese , eat letters 🤪.
@@inportugal2 I've been learning on the Drops app and I am often amazed at how the phrases sound nothing like the words! 🤣
@@chrisplusmelissa when americans say my midle name i smille a lot . try to say and the leasing in your ap. you gonna laf a lot. PIRES is the same word of the litle plate with came when you drink a expresso coup . when english speakers say looks they have a mouth full of food.