Unusual Portugal

Lisbon's crafty recycling bins.

Portugal is a normal country. Though that makes it sometimes tourist-tacky, there is still enough beautiful weirdness and macabre oddities to keep it lively.

Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus, the progenitor species of chickens) roam the Parque da Cidade do Porto.

Carmo convent, Lisbon.

A baby-eating monster (probably not a werewolf) adorns a baroque 17th century carriage in the National Coach Museum, Lisbon.

The Coach Museum's most modern installation: Tom Slick's Thunderbolt Grease Slapper, converted for the 1967 Apple-less Indian 500.

 
Two images of the divine from Lisbon's National Tile (Azulejo) Museum in the former Madre de Deus convent: the mortal remains of an unnamed martyr (left) and a tile effigy of Bacchus (right).

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