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Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisboa, Portugal
Torre de Belém
Torre de Belém, oficialmente a Torre de São Vicente é uma fortificação do século XVI localizada em Lisboa que serviu como fortaleza e como porta de entrada para Lisboa.
Praça do Império, Praça do Império, 1400-206 Lisboa, Portugal
Jeronimo´s Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery is a National Monument and was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
King Manuel I built a large monastery near the location where the Infante D. Henrique ordered a church to be built in the mid-15th century by invocation of St. Mary of Belém.
To immortalise the memory of the Infante, for his intense devotion to Our Lady and faith in St. Jerome, in 1496 King Manuel I decided to found the Monastery of St. Mary of Belém, near the city of Lisbon, next to the Tagus River.
Donated to the monks of the Order of St. Jerome, today it is commonly known as the Jerónimos Monastery.
A pantheon of the Avis-Beja Dynasty, in the 19th century the church became the sepulchre for heroes and poets: Vasco da Gama and Luís de Camões.
A notable work of architecture, it became part of Portuguese identity and culture.
Largo dos Jerónimos, 1400-209 Lisboa, Portugal
Tropical Botanical Garden
Situated, from 1914, in the monumental area of Lisbon, next to the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, the garden occupies seven hectares near the Palácio de Belém. It shares a centrality that includes other important cultural spaces of the capital, such as the Praça do Império, the Museu Nacional Coches, the Belém Cultural Center, the Museu da Marinha, the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, the Calouste Gulbenkian Planetarium , the Church of Memory, the Jardim Botânico da Ajuda and Palácio da Ajuda. It extends on a hillside, facing south, along 800 meters overlooking the Tagus river. Rich in water and favored by a privileged microclimate in the city, it has been enriched with a great diversity of native and important exotic plant species especially from tropical and subtropical regions.
The Tropical Botanical Garden is a special place where visitors can enjoy sounds and smells of nature and observe very interesting native and important exotic plant species, however, without ceasing to be a scientific tool, a reference for plant identification, plant exploration and committed to sharing, developing, and maintaining the plant collections, with many species with high conservation status at a global level.
R. de Belém, 1300 Lisboa, Portugal
Pasteis de Belém
One of the 7 wonders of Portuguese cuisine, the Pastel de Belém. In 1837 these small sweet pastel started to bee made, following an ancient recipe from the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. That secret recipe is recreated every day in this very famous bakery, by hand, using only traditional methods. Even today, the Pastéis de Belém offer the unique flavour of time-honoured Portuguese sweet making.
Av. Brasília, Lisboa, Portugal
Monument do the Discovers (Padrão dos Descobrimentos)
Created by Cottinelli Telmo (1897–1948) and the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida (1898–1975), Padrão dos Descobrimentos was first erected in 1940, in a temporary form, as part of the Portuguese World Exhibition, built with perishable materials.
Reconstructed in 1960 to mark 500 years since the death of the Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator) with concrete and rose-tinted Leiria stone masonry, with the sculptures made of Sintra limestone masonry.
Standing alone in a striking position on the breakwater on the bank of the Tagus, the Monument to the Discoveries evokes the Portuguese overseas expansion, recalls the country’s glorious past and symbolises the enormity of the work carried out by the Infante, the driving force behind the Discoveries.
A stylised caravel seems to be setting out to sea, with Henry the Navigator in its prow. On the two lateral ramps ascending to the symbolic figure of the Prince are some of the significant characters of the Portuguese overseas expansion and cultural names from the age of the Discoveries, 32 in total, all portrayed with symbols that allude to their identity: navigators, cartographers, warriors, colonisers, missionaries, chroniclers and artists.
Composed of a vertical element consisting of a stylised mast oriented North-South, with two Portuguese coats of arms on each side with its five small shields, surrounded by a band with 12 castles and stylised fleurs-de-lis in the centre.
The monument is flanked by two metal armillary spheres on two parallelepiped platforms.