Hello everyone! This is @ybanezkim26 and I'll present today's edition of Travel Digest. In our featured posts, we have a park in Curitiba, Brazil, the city center of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, Portugal, and some mosques in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Enjoy and keep on pinning your travel posts to the map!
My first tourist destination was the Bosque Alemão, which I had wanted to visit for months and finally made it. This is one of the most emblematic natural and cultural spaces in the city (Curitiba). It was inaugurated in 1996 and covers an area of 38,000 square meters.
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Returning to Vila Nova de Foz Côa was a strange experience from the very first minutes. The only memories I had of that place came from childhood, already quite blurry, almost reduced to small, isolated images without much context. And perhaps that's why the initial impact was precisely that. Everything seemed smaller than what I had stored in my head.
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Actually, I don't want to talk only about mosques in this post. I want to talk about the fine workmanship on the mosques, the calligraphy on the walls, the spaciousness that high ceilings give people and the unique atmosphere of the courtyards. Because when I enter a mosque, one of the first things that catches my attention is that it is not just its size. Sometimes the calligraphy on a wall, sometimes the fine decorations around the mihrab, sometimes the light filtering in through the windows makes people think for a long time.
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