Lisbon for Two Days

One of my favorite cities on earth.

Day 1

Wine tasting and Pastel de Nata

Left the ship in search of wine and pastries.

Success. Joe chose white port. I chose to taste different wines from the regions.

Bought a half dozen pastries. I intend to give away most of them. View on Rue Augusta to the Rua Augusta arch. The arch was built to commemorate the city’s reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake. Lots of other tourists.

A viewing area for the Euro 2024 matches. Portugal plays their first match Tuesday (NOT our floating hotel).

A street scene in the Alfalma neighborhood.

Day Two- A tour with Liliana

Joe and I met Liliana on our first trip to Lisbon in 2019. That trip she and her husband Sylvester were our guides for Fatima. Then in 2022 they guided us to Sintra. This time three distinct sites.

The church, in its architectural austerity, is the materialisation of Cistercian spirituality and praxis and conforms to the principles prescribed by Saint Bernard.

Tomb of King Pedro
Pedro I, whose reign began in 1360, died on January 18th, 1367.
A leading figure in a story of forbidden love, he maintained the memory of his loved one by having her buried near him in the Monastery of Alcobaça.
The tomb narrates the Life of St Bartholomew, the King’s patron saint. A depiction of the Wheel of Life symbolises his own life story and his love for Inês de Castro.

Tomb of Dona Inês de Castro
Inês de Castro, a Galician noblewoman with whom the then Crown Prince Pedro fell in love, was assassinated by order of his father, Afonso IV, in Coimbra, in 1355.
The tomb represents scenes from the Life and Death of Christ, in a clear analogy with her life. The Last Judgement closes the narrative, with the Salvation of the Innocents and the condemnation of the guilty.

After learning of this tragic love story we headed for a beautiful area

Nazare, named after the Biblical “Nazareth” in the 4th century, is Portugal’s most famous fishing village, now becoming important as well in the world of big wave, tow-in surfing. The tallest wave ever recorded being surfed – by a Hawaiian big-wave surfer – was off Nazare.