The sight of swooping swallows early in the evening is a very Portugese sight. If Portugal has a national bird surely it is the swallow. There are ceramic swallows on walls and every old archway, bridge or overhand seems to have little mud nests with, if you seem them in spring, little beaks sticking out of them. The swallows furiously circle looking for insects which they bring back to the young in the nests.
Photo above swallows nests in the entrance to the Mosteiro do Crato in Flor da Rosa. The castle/monastery is both a national monument and a stylish hotel -a Pousada-photo below. Our room was in one of the turrets of the monastery.
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