“Moorish Steps” : Sintra, Portugal, 6th September 2012
Another shot from the massive and imposing Castelo dos Mouros, although it is hard to do justice to its size and scope in any one image.
I was gingerly making my way down the steep steps when I happened to notice the woman in front of me had draped her colourful shirt over her head to combat the powerful summer sun, and this, for a fleeting second, made me think of the Arabian or Berber styles of headdress which might have been worn all those centuries ago by the people who built this place, transporting me back into the ninth century.
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