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Lagos walking tour with local historian
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Lagos walking tour with local historian
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With Lagos Walking Tour, in a relaxed way, you can meet the urban evolution of the area and the importance of this town in World history. Will reveal you the history, stories, myths, economy and society.<br>Celtic iron age will be revealed in where they found Lacobriga: The first urban nucleus, objects and way of Living.<br>Found where the Romans settled down, their activities and archaeological finds.<br>You will meet the Middle Ages Wall and urban Trace, that was built by the Portuguese<br>From the Modern Era, you will learn from Henry the Navigator, his role in the discovery movement, slaves. The Modern Era wall that today, partially surround the old town and the cemetery of slaves.<br>In this tour you will walk through the path of the Last Convicted to death by a civil crime, in Portugal.<br>Will explain why is King Dom Sebastião statue in our main square. <br>With gravures, old photos, photos reconstitutions that you will see in this experience, you will look to Lagos with a completely new perspective
€15.39 per adult
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This museum is a must see for anybody with a serious interest in history, and a desire to learn more about a tragic but important part of the human condition. The first slave market for the western world started in Lagos, and this history had a profound effect on the
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When coming out of the Santo Antonio Church it is in front at a few steps away, the small museum. In the middle of the century. XV the first African slaves arrived in Lagos, beginning their commercialization. In one of the oldest buildings in the city, the Museo Nucleus of the
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Not much to see and not much info. Could’ve been done so much better. gave it 2 stars and not one because it at least had a clean loo
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Rather a sanitised version of this awful time but worth a visit as some history of the trade and how it started
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This museum has the potential to be excellent, but fell short in my opinion. Whilst it was very well laid out and was in both English and Portuguese, it felt like a very sanitized version of what happened. I didn't come out of the museum feeling as uncomfortable about it as
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