The Oceanarium in the Parque das Nacoes. Built at the same time as the rest of the development in 1998 to host the Expo.

It was designed by American architect Peter Chermayeff and is the largest in Europe with several zones representing different oceanic environments.

photo: Antonio Sacchetti

A typical Lisbon tram (or electrico), this one is in the Alfama just past the Se.

I'm not sure of the route of this one, the number 744. The most popular is the number 28 which takes in all the main points of interest around the city.

photo: Jose Manuel

View over Castelo do Sao Jorge and into the heart of Lisbon. You can pick out the Carmo Convent near Chiado and tell the photo is a few years old because the Praca do Comercio is still being used as a car park

photo: Carlos Gil

The Fernando Pessoa staue outside the café Brasileira in Chiado Square, Lisbon. Pessoa is Portugal's most celebrated poet Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

The Monument to the Discoveries was officially unveiled in 1960 as part of the celebrations of the 500 year anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator. Along with Henry are many other important figures from Portugal's history. The monument itself is 50 metres high and has a viewing platform on the top.The statues of 33 historical figures that adorn the two sides of the monument are made up from the following:Afonso V of PortugalVasco da Gama (discoverer of the sea route to India)Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (navigator)Pedro Álvares Cabral (discoverer of Brazil)Ferdinand Magellan (first to circumnavigate the globe)Nicolau Coelho (navigator)Gaspar Corte-Real (navigator)Martim Afonso de Sousa (navigator)João de Barros (writer)Estêvão da Gama (sea captain)Bartolomeu Dias (first to cross over the Cape of Good Hope)Diogo Cão (first to arrive to the Congo river)António de Abreu (navigator)Afonso de Albuquerque (second viceroy of Portuguese India)Saint Francis Xavier (missionary)Cristóvão da Gama (captain)Peter, Duke of Coimbra (son of King John I of Portugal)Queen Philippa of LancasterFernão Mendes Pinto (explorer and writer)Frei Gonçalo de Carvalho, O.P. (Dominican Missionary)Frei Henrique de Coimbra, O.F.M. (Franciscan Missionary)Luís de Camões (renaissance poet who celebrated the navigations in the epic Lusiads)Nuno Gonçalves (painter)Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler)Pêro da Covilhã (traveller)Jácome de Maiorca (cartographer)Pedro Escobar (pilot)Pedro Nunes (mathematician)Pêro de Alenquer (pilot)Gil Eanes (navigator)João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator)Ferdinand the Holy Prince (son of King John I of Portugal)

The ruins of the Carmo Convent in Lisbon. The convent was largely destroyed in the 1755 earthquake

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Looking down the Lisbon coastal road (the Marginal) that runs along the side of the river Tejo.

You can make out the Discoveries monument in Belem in the centre of the picture.

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Looking down the Lisbon riverside from the above the nightclubs and marina of the Docas da Alcantra towards Cais Sodre and the city.

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Looking down on Lisbon and the river Tejo. You can clearly make out the 2 bridges - the 25 Abril and the 13 Km Vasco da Gamma bridge

The churches of São Vicente de Fora and Santa Engrácia that dominate the Graça district of Lisbon.