Your Holiday in Spain and Portugal
| dc.contributor.author | Cooper, Gordon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2/29/24 7:46 | |
| dc.date.available | 2/29/24 7:46 | |
| dc.date.first_ed | 1952 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1952 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Esta obra tem o objetivo de ser um guia de viagem por Espanha e Portugal. Aborda vários temas importantes no planeamento de viagens, nomeadamente alojamento, passaportes e vistos, transportes, custos e gorjetas, entre outros. | |
| dc.description.author_date | N.: 1932 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 15 | |
| dc.identifier.other | B | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/732796 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://archive.org/details/yourholidayinspa0000unse/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/114036 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Alvim Redman Limited | |
| dc.publisher.city | London | |
| dc.rights | metadata only access | |
| dc.text | Portugal [p. 195-233] Introduction [p. 195] “Portugal is a pleasant but rather uninspiring country, its main attractions being the beautiful scenery, agreeable climate, and the richness of its folk-lore. Unfortunately, a passion for vandalistic “restoration” has practically ruined a number of the country’s best historic monuments: in consequence, much of artistic interest has been lost. The people, courteous though they may be to strangers, are more lethargic than the Spanish. I Know that some of the English residents like this 18th-century social atmosphere, with its amazing contrasts between rich and poor, but the holiday visitor find it hard to appreciate the excessive display of wealth by the few, when faced with the marked poverty of the masses. Still, the poor appear to be content, which is more than can be said of many folk in the Welfare Lands. In fact, the tourist, if he wishe to enjoy himself, must not be too concerned about internal conditions. He will find the people kindly, although he may sometimes be confused with their dilatoriness – a kind of ‘tomorrow will do’ attitude – and this unfortunately sometimes applies to official sources of information. Even during my own journeys in collecting material for this book I often felt baffled […].” [p. 196] “Portugal obviously seems to live for herself, for except during some world crisis she takes extremely little interest in outside affairs, and her people are seemingly content to mind their own garden and not to look over anybody else’s wall. However, for winter and summer sunshine a holiday in Portugal had undoubted appeal. I think too, that anyone who wishes to study a people who have changed little since George Borrow visited them a century and a half ago may be well interested. At the same time, I would warn intending visitors to swallow with a few grains of salt the information given in certain travel books on the country, for some re over-glamourized in their statements, often to a point of absurdity, and paint, indeed, a rather misleading picture of the people and the country". | |
| dc.title | Your Holiday in Spain and Portugal | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.familyName | Cooper | |
| person.givenName | Gordon | |
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