Just in time for Halloweeeeen

Here's a nice Portuguese Church in Faro:

And here's a nice Portuguese church with a STORKS' NEST on top.



















And here's a nice Portuguese church with lots of gold. There's enough glitter to make your eyeballs spasm. It's Brazilian gold, sent home to Portugal in the days of empire. If anyone in Portugal wants it back, they should contact that Argentine guy in Rome

And just in time for Halloweeeeen, here's a creepy Portuguese church (in Evora) decorated with the bones of hundreds of monks.  Don't try this decorating idea at home because the neighbors will talk. 

     Over the door to this chapel it says,  "Nos ossos que aqui estamos,  pelos vossos esperamos."  Which (and this is the great thing about Portuguese) if you know any Latin language you can probably get the gist, but it's something like "Our bones are here, waiting for yours."   

Evora is also an old university town and some of the students wear their medieval style student robes around town. Which sort of makes them look like vampires, don't you think?

And I have no idea what this is. We found it in a park by the city walls.  Just a nice piece of civic art, I guess. 

Happy Halloween!