KIng Pedro IV monument, also in Rossio Square

LISBON - an overview

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August 24th 2015
A compact people-oriented and inexpensive city of about 600,000 situated about a third of the way up Portugal’s coast, Lisbon has been its capital and most important seaport since 1147. Its history goes back before the Romans, and it has been occupied by a succession of conquerors, most notably the Moors, until it became the capital of the new independent nation. Eventually controlling an empire ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

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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