Lisbon Cathedral
Sé de Lisboa - Lisbon Cathedral.
"Sé Patriarchal, or cathedral, the oldest ecclesiastical edifice in Lisbon, founded by Affonso Henriques in 1150 after the conquest of Lisbon, and traditionally at one time a Moorish mosque. It is situated halfway up the castle-hill, to the S. of the Castl of St. George, with which it is connected by an underground passage. Boniface IX invested it in 1393 with the dignity of a metropolitan church. Affonso IV restored most of the building after the earthquake of 1344, and Ferdinand I erected the present W. façade in1380".--Baedeker 1913
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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more 
