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🐴 La légende de Nazaré📍 NazaréIn 1182, the knight D. Fuas Roupinho, chasing a deer through the mist, sees his horse stop dead at the edge of the cliff — saved, it is said, by Our L…Read the legend →⭐ La légende de l'Étoile📍 Serra da EstrelaLegend has it that a shepherd followed a star to the country's highest peak — the star is said to have given its name to the « mountain of the star »,…Read the legend →
👑 La Mauresque enchantée de Sintra📍 SintraIt is said that an enchanted Moorish princess still haunts the hills of Sintra, appearing at dawn near the springs and the old Moorish walls, waiting …Read the legend →
🎬 Óbidos au cinéma📍 ÓbidosÓbidos castle, superbly preserved since 1527, opens Gérard Jugnot's film « Sans peur et sans reproche » (1988): the jousting scene of the opening cred…Read the legend →
🐓 Le coq de Barcelos📍 BarcelosA Galician pilgrim, wrongly accused of theft in Barcelos, is sentenced to hang. Before the judge at his table, he swears his innocence: « As surely as…Read the legend →
🌹 Pedro et Inês — les larmes de Coimbra📍 CoimbraIn Coimbra, Prince Pedro loved Inês de Castro with a forbidden love. Executed for reasons of state in 1355 at the Quinta das Lágrimas, she became quee…Read the legend →🍲 La soupe de pierre d'Almeirim📍 AlmeirimA hungry begging friar knocks at a door in Almeirim with a plain stone: « I am going to make a stone soup. » Intrigued, the household lets him — and t…Read the legend →🥖 La boulangère d'Aljubarrota📍 AljubarrotaOn the evening of the battle of Aljubarrota (1385), which sealed Portugal's independence, Brites de Almeida, the town's baker, is said to have found s…Read the legend →
🌸 Les amandiers en fleur de Silves📍 SilvesA Moorish king of Silves married Gilda, a princess from the North, who was wasting away from no longer seeing the snow of her homeland. So the king ha…Read the legend →
⚔️ Martim Moniz, la porte de Lisbonne📍 LisbonneAt the siege of Lisbon (1147), the knight Martim Moniz saw a gate of the Moorish castle open slightly. He threw himself into it and blocked it with hi…Read the legend →
🗿 Les soldats pétrifiés de Carnac📍 CarnacLegend has it that the thousands of aligned menhirs are an army of Roman soldiers, turned to stone by Saint Cornelius for blocking his way to the sea.Read the legend →
🗝️ L'Aiguille creuse d'Étretat📍 ÉtretatThe chalk needle is said, according to Maurice Leblanc, to hide the treasure of the kings of France in its hollow heart — the secret of Arsène Lupin, …Read the legend →
👼 L'archange du Mont-Saint-Michel📍 Le Mont-Saint-MichelIn 708, the archangel Michael is said to have appeared in a dream to Bishop Aubert of Avranches, ordering him to build a sanctuary on the rock — the l…Read the legend →
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