Lissabon - Torre de Belém (Unesco)

This Belém Tower is officially called the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente). It’s also UNESCO world heritage. The tower dates from the 16th-century as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. It was built during the Portuguese Renaissance and is an example of the Portuguese Manueline style (but it also incorporates hints of other architectural styles).

The structure was built from lioz limestone and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre four-storey tower.

You enter thr city and the area Belém via the famous and impressive bridge “Ponte 25 de Abril”. It’s sometimes called it the Tagus River Bridge because this was the first bridge of Lissabon crossing the Tagus River for the big traffic. It refers to the Carnation Revolution (“Anjerrevolutie”) on 25th of April 1974, removing its ancient name Salazar Bridge, prime minister António de Oliveira Salazar for the ruling president Américo Thomaz.Read more