Nice Views from Lisboa.








Typical sidewalk in Lisboa.





More nice views... one of Lisboa's seven hills; an old castle and some old churches, in downtown.

Near Setubal, a few miles south of Lisbon.











Old church in Setubal, nice tiles.










Same old church in Setubal, old artwork inside and new artwork outside!










the "Rossio" plaza in Lisboa.






WWI monument in Lisboa has extra stuff in the sidewalk tile work. Most of the tile work isn't this fancy, but some is. Boy, this looks like a lot more work than just pouring concrete!

more Lisboa 2006

This Metro stop looks like one of the 1900's Paris stations.















This is not grafitti! The artworks in this metro station are baked into the tiles. There's a bunch of these artworks in one Metro station. Was it "Parque" or "Jardem Zoologique"? I can't remember.




















A monument to Mr. Pombal, who guided the rebuliding of Lisboa after the huge earthquake.


















Just a little zen-like nook between buildings

















In the background, on the waterfrond, a monument to the Portuguese explorers.

Estoril









The coastline









The motordrome outside of Estoril people camping out to see the Grand Prix motorcycle race.








Estoril or Cascais.

No shit.









Nice tile art.







More Coastline









A pointless elevator to no where designed by some guy who once worked for Eiffel. This is a national monument.










This is the tower of Belem, a very famous monument. It looks big in photos, it's actually not all that big or impressive in person, but it is pretty old. Why would you build a fortress with all that ornate stuff on it when it could just get damaged by cannon balls? Maybe built befor cannons were invented. The Belem district is also famous for it's tasty pastries.

Narrow warren of streens in Alfama district, the only part of Lisboa not leveled in the huge earthquake. So, I guess, the entire town was once like this.








A plaza, then the narrow streets.









Nice tile artwork.








More narrow streets










Motorcycles, and sometimes cars, squeeze through these streets.

---End of blog entry for Portugal, 2006---