Amoreira Aqueduct - Obidos

The Amoreira Aqueduct in Obidos, built at the behest of Catherine of Austria in 1575.
The aqueduct leads from somewhere in the distance to inside the town walls

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Perched on a hill rising out of an agricultural plain, Óbidos is one of Portugal’s picturesque gems. From its lofty centre one gazes upon expanses of vineyards speckled with whirling windmills and terracotta-roofed homesteads. Nearer, narrow cobbled streets, lined typically with whitewashed, bougainvillaea-draped houses, wind up to the walled interior; the name Óbidos stems from the Latin for…