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These photos have a "Dreamy Effect", a "Fairytale Effect", a "Painting Effect". These photographs will bring old world charm into your life. These photographs are perfect to display in hotels, boardrooms, office buildings, hallways, dining rooms, bedrooms, travel agencies, bars and restaurants. These photographs will put a smile on your face as you can imagine actually being there.
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David Letts > Dreaming of Obidos II

Obidos is a picture-postcard town, flower-covered balconies, whitewashed houses, roofs of orange tiles and narrow cobblestone streets -- all surrounded by Moorish walls and dominated by an old castle. This tiny walled town has hardly changed at all since the middle ages. It started its existence as a fortress on the sea but the bay silted up leaving the town without a purpose. In 1228 King Dinis paused at Óbidos. His wife so admired the charm of the town, he gave it to her as a present.
David Letts > Medieval Stone Water Fountain of Europe
David Letts > Sunrise in Obidos
David Letts > Dreaming of Sintra

This photograph was taken of Pena's Palace in Sintra Portugal. I took this photograph while on vacation on September 2, 2003. Sintra is usually crowded with people, but on this day, it seemed like it was just my wife and I. 

The fairy-tale setting of Sintra is one of the oldest places in Portugal occupied by the Romans until 5 AD. The town's landscape is lush with surrounding green forests, exotic flowers and elaborate palaces built centuries ago as summer retreats for the royal family. When the Christian Crusaders captured it in 1147, they fought bitterly against the Moors firmly entrenched in their imposing castle, the ruins of which remain today.

ONE cannot enter Sintra without temporarily losing one's mind. Is it real or some strange trickery wrought by ancient alchemy?

A magical confabulation of Roman relics, Moorish ruins, medieval cloisters, royal palaces, old forests and cobblestones, Sintra clings perilously to the craggy mountains of the moon above Cabo da Roca, where the most westerly tip of Europe leaps into the Atlantic.

A fantasyland at the end of the world, it has lured various war-faring tribes and armies of conquest ever since anyone can remember. It is even said that there are dinosaur footprints on the slopes of a cliff near Praia Grande.

Mostly though, Sintra has been a playground for Portuguese royalty and the romantically inclined, who have found in its precipitous triangulation of stone, sea and sky the raw materials from which to construct their own fabulous visions.

Try to imagine the people entering or leaving thru this door over the past few hundred years. Kings, Queens, visiting Heads of State from other contries. 

If this door can only talk....
David Letts > Old Water Spiket Against Orange Textured Wall
David Letts > Old Grape Vine of Portugal
David Letts > Gate of Obidos
David Letts > Clay Tile Rooftops of Nazare
David Letts > Rooftops of Obidos
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