#river tejo

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After four months, the Moorish rulers of Lisbon agreed to surrender on October 24, 1147, primarily because of hunger within the city.  

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Cranes

Lisbon

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"Torre nas nuvens colocada mas que das águas nasce ainda" Poema de David Mourão-Ferreira 📷 Ana Luísa Alvim | CML

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Ponte 25 de Abril, over River Tejo, Lisbon, Portugal

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“Pelo Tejo vai-se para o Mundo” - “Through the Tejo you go to the World”.

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The citizens of Lisabon were celebrating the triumphal return of the explorer Vasco de Gama on September 9, 1499, completing his two-year journey around the Cape of Good Hope to India.

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Belém Tower, Lisbon (No. 4)

While the tower is predominantly Manueline in style, it also incorporates features of other architectural styles. It was built by the military architect Francisco de Arruda, who had already supervised the construction of several fortresses in Portuguese territories in Morocco. The influence of Moorish architecture is manifested in the delicate decorations, the arched windows, the balconies, and the ribbed cupolas of the watchtowers.

The tower has four storeys, with fenestrations and battlements, the ground floor being occupied by a vaulted cistern. On the first floor, there is a south-facing rectangular door with arched windows on the east and north, and bartizans in the northeast and northwest corners. The southern part of the second floor is dominated by a covered veranda with a loggia (matacães), consisting of an arcade of seven arches, resting on large corbels with balusters. It is covered by laced stonework to form a porch, and its sloped roof ends in a sculpted twisted rope. The eastern, northern and western walls are occupied by double-arched enclosures, with the northeast and northwest corners occupied by statues of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the archangel Michael in niches. The third floor has twin windows in the northern, eastern and western façades, with balusters, interspersed by two armillary spheres and large relief with the Royal coat of arms. The final floor is encircled by a terrace with shields of the Order of Christ, and a northern arched door and eastern arched window. The terrace is enclosed by a low wall with colonnaded pyramidal merlons with bartizans in the four corners. A similar terrace above this floor offers a view of the surrounding landscape.

Source: Wikipedia

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The 1761 Lisbon earthquake stroke off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 on March 31, 1761.