Lissabon

Another city that gets a 10/10 from me! The food, people, buildings, and OCEAN! All of it was so amazing. My favorite part was the color of the buildings. In Firenze most of our buildings are yellow which is fantastic but in Lisbon they have yellow, blue, pink, green, orange, you name it. They also have tiles decorating a lot of their buildings. That was my absolute favorite thing about the architecture here. They have a bridge that looks almost exactly like the golden gate bridge in San Francisco and that is because they were built by the same company. They also have a statue very similar to Christ the Redeemer in Brazil. It would be the same, but they ran out of money, so Christ is much much smaller in Lisbon. We visited the Jerónimos Monastery which was soooo cool. It was huge and had a very gothic look to it. Everything I have learned in art history about Monasteries was so helpful here in understanding what certain rooms would be for. The large courtyard picture would most likely be used as a social area/prayer space for monks that live here. One of the best parts was the food. The pastel de nata is the pastry of Portugal! It is an egg custard inside a layered pastry shell, and I will be going back to get more someday. Overall, I loved all of the art in Lisbon. From the floor that you walked on to the tops of buildings, everything was decorated in tile and murals.Read more