View of Rio Tejo from Torre de Belem

Lisbon boulevard:  we still have unprotected palm trees!

Torre de Belem, built in 1520 to guard to entrance to the harbor

Requisite statue honoring Henry the Navigator

View of Lisbon from the head of the Avenida de Liberade to the Rio Tejo

Port Authority for Lisbon...we think.

An unusual metro station decor

These "elevators" hoist people up and down the steep inclines

The train station illustrates the Moorish influence in Lisbon

Mosaic tiles on every boulevard

A sample of modern architecture clinging to traditional shapes;  this is a shopping mall!

The Department of Justice is another modern building

You travel small, crowded streets only to encounter an open square with a statue.

Again and again. 

Details from one of the Statues

At the base of the Avenida da Liberade

This monument resides across the river and was funded by the general population to celebrate the fact that Portugal did not take part in WWII.

Another delightful Lisbon square.

The museum houses over 200 ship models and depicts the efforts of the Portuguese discoverers from 1490 onward.  Prince Henry the Navigator sponsored most of the efforts including a navigation school in Sagres but did not explore a great deal himself.

Interior of the Portuguese royal yacht before the start of the 1910 republic

Demonstration of knot tying

The ship models are larger in the Museum de Mer

These are actually working ships.

The royal barge which carried the royal family between docks.

More detail of the royal yacht which is currently being restored

The royal yacht's figure head

A Portuguese row boat

The boats were also transported on wheels overland.

Sometimes they almost look Scandinavian.