"My Great Door to the world" a Santarém Travel Page by solopes

Forty years ago, when the dictatorship kept us inside the hard to cross borders of an undeveloped country, I met, in Santarém an opened door to the world. The Folklore Festival was the highest point of the National Agricultural Exhibition, and a rare opportunity to meet other cultures and civilizations. That's a long... long story! But the first time I went further than Spain, it was from Santarém with two local friends. And that's where my travel "disease" really started.