Museu National des Conches, Lisboa, P:ortugal,, May 2018

Created by the initiative of Queen Amelia, the wife of King Carlos I, the museum was inaugurated    on 23rd May 1905, more than 110 years ago. The site chosen to house to the Museum was the Royal Riding Arena in Belem. The Queen brought together the old nobble carriages belonging to the Portuguese Royal Family, along with their respective accessories. Until then they were scattered in various  store hoses  and coach houses. The vehicles exhibited include coaches, berlins, chaises, cabriolets, litters, sedan chairs and children  cabriolets. General view of the great hall , taken by me like souvenir is presented on the firs please. We were in lisboa first time in the Summer of 1978 year with Margy, after her return from Mozambique. We were there to visit her college Manuela from Lisbon. By some reason we missed Museum of Conches. When I was in Lisbon for second time, after 40 years, together with my friends from Angola, family Valkov (Vasko, Tania and their grandson Vasko Senior, student there) my wife college and family friend, the same Manuela met all 4 of us and after visiting other places, she brought us to the Museum of Coaches. I took a lot of photos with my camera. Using of flashlights was forbidden and the photos were not enough exposed. After some photo correction, I choose the best of them and presented in this short album. We with Margy saw some Royal Coaches of the Russian Emperors in The Hermitage in Petersburg in USSR (now Russia) some 45 year ago (in 1973) with more luxury and gold over them. I remember the Golden  Coach of Imperatriz (“Kolesnitzata na  Imperatritza ) Ekaterina The Grate….But no so they Russians don’t have so big collection like Lisbon’s Museum of Coaches in Portugal.