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Visit Lisbon - Once at the heart of the greatest seafaring
nation in the world, Lisbon nowadays still has an air of majesty
that transcends time.
The air of slowly eroding wealth in the old city draws comparisons
in the mind's eye to Italy's great maritime state of
Venice,
and indeed the two cities at the height of their ascendancies were
often compared. But Lisbon is a different proposition to
Venice's elegant
aging dowager. Portugal's capital might wear the jewels of its
golden age proudly but it is not prepared to live on the wealth it
gets from pawning them to tourists.
That isn't to say Lisbon is eager to forget its past. The Monument
to the Discoveries built in the 1960s to celebrate the fifth
centenary of Henry the Navigator's (the stay-at-home funder of the
great explorations) death demonstrates with what pride the city
remembers its glories. Buildings such as the Jerónimos and the Torre
de Belém not only display the vast amounts of wealth the city could
once command, but are also built to a unique Portuguese
architectural style born of the great days of empire.
But Lisbon has more to offer than these antique trinkets. Most
recently the city has revitalised itself with a modern development
and the massive centrepiece of the Vasco da Gama bridge.
Ostentatiously the development was to celebrate the 500-year
anniversary of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India but it has been the
catalyst for a new rash of modern office blocks. The city is at the
centre of the country's financial and political life and it shows in
the hubbub of business that now takes place on the site of Lisbon's
marvellous Expo '98 celebrations.
This blend of modernity with history is what makes Lisbon such a
great destination for the visitor. It is a place where you can pick
up freshly caught and barbecued fish in one of the cobbled street
markets that look like they haven't changed in centuries, and walk
round the next corner into a bustling business district. Such
dynamism you feel the intrepid denizens of the city 500 years ago
would well have approved of.
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