Lisbon Day Trip

Today's trip is to Lisbon. It's closer than Seville, only 97 miles away. The city is over two thousand years old. Romans lived beside the river. Became the capital city in 1255, making it the oldest capital city in the world.
We crossed the 25th April Bridge. It celebrates the ending of the dictatorship in 1974. The lower section of the bridge is for trains. It is similar in drsign to the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco
There is a statue of Christ here similar to the one in Rio de Janeiro but smaller.
The Monument Of Discovery was built in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the navigatorRead more