Vasco da Gama cuddly toy at the World of Discoveries experience in Porto - Portugal

Insignia of the Order of Christ - Ordem do Cristo - successor organisation to the Knights Templar in Portugal - Soares dos Reis museum in Porto - Portugal

Head of a suckling pig 🐷 on sale in Porto for a mere three and a half Euros

Faces and creatures on the nuns’ seats at Santa Clara convent in Porto date from the 17th century and reference the New World

A fearsome spiked grille separated nuns from the congregation at Santa Clara convent in Porto - Portugal - what were they expecting?

Gory altar shows the martyrdom of Franciscan friars who unwisely visited medieval Morocco to do some missionary work - they returned headless

Wax eyes left at an altar to Saint Lucy at Viana do Castelo in Portugal - her eyes were gouged out by the Romans - church of Santa Lúzia

Folkloric dancing from the Minho district of Portugal 🇵🇹 very distinctive! At the annual festival in Viana do Castelo

Klimt Eastwood.

An Italian Serie D Football Team, Boreale Calcio, has mad a uniform themed on the Roman Empire and Constantine the Great

Parthenon marbles plaster casts at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool donated by George IV - they could loan them to the British Museum after the Greeks get Elgin’s marbles - simples! :)

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Another French church burns.

Amazing Phoenician statues in the museum at Cadiz of the goddess Astarte from the 5th century BC - increasing Greek influence.

Roman theatre in Cadiz discovered in 1980. Medieval castle later slapped on top of it.

The Romans had glass funerary urns encased in a protective metal layer like a 1970s ice bucket - things I learned at the museum in Cadiz - Spain Museo de Cádiz #cadiz #Andalucia Cádiz Club de Fútbol

Walking up the bell tower of Cadiz cathedral and could see the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines cruise ship 🛳️ from the top! Catedral de Cádiz #cadiz

Yesterday I spotted my cruise ship from the bell tower of Cadiz cathedral and today the roof of Saint Vincent church in Lisbon Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Nigel J.Hetherington 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 #vertigo

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Benedictine monks sat down and put their hands on these…my guide yesterday couldn’t offer a non-pornographic explanation - naughty monks! 😈