On our way back to the tram stop we passed the Palace of Belem, which very fancy guards outside, and the adjacent Coach museum. This building had been the Palace’s riding arena back in royal times.Read more
On our way back to the tram stop we passed the Palace of Belem, which very fancy guards outside, and the adjacent Coach museum. This building had been the Palace’s riding arena back in royal times.Read more
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Eine beeindruckende Kathedrale, irrtümlicher Weise auch Klosterkirche genannt.
1502 hatte Manuel I. den Grundstein für das Kloster gelegt, das zum Monument nationaler Größe wurde.
DieRead more
Met het uur verschil was het lang wachten tot het ontbijt van 8u, in België al 9u. En gezien de meeste zaken maar op 10 uur open gaan besloot ik te voet naar het klooster te gaan, wat iets meer danRead more
Nachdem wir gut ausgeschlafen und gefrühstückt hatten, ging es los auf unsere letzte Sightseeingtour. Für heute hatten wir zwar nicht so viele Ziele, diese lagen dafür umso weiter auseinander.Read more
Bit of a quiet day for activity as we left the Douro Valley early to get back to Porto, metro to town and train south. A planning day for what we wanted to do in Lisbon and a night cooking forRead more
Belém is the western most neighborhood of Lisbon. It is historically the starting point for for the world exploring journeys that the Portuguese sponsored. We had a very good lunch here after theRead more
We tried to scope out what was open and what was not before our trip, but oddly the info was not really available. We traveled by bus down to Belem to look at the famous tower (that was closed),Read more
The Ajuda National Palace is a neoclassical building from the first half of the 19th century.
It became a royal residence on king Luís I accession to the throne and it remained as such until the endRead more
You might also know this place by the following names:
Belém, Belem, Torre de Belém, Belém Tower, Belémin torni, Tour de Belém, Belém torony, Betlehemsturninn, Tuerm vu Belém, 贝伦塔