Torre de Belém The D&O Diary’s European assignment continued last week with a stopover in Lisbon, Portugal’s hilly capital city, known to the locals as Lisboa. It is located on the north side of the Rio Tejo (known as the Tagus River in English). The city itself has about 550,000, but the city’s sprawling metropolitan area has about 2.7 million residents. Lisbon may not have the allure of some other European capitals, but it has an abundance of history and charm; a diversity of interesting neighborhoods to explore; and an abundance of great food, as reflected in the pictures below. The city has two iconic landmarks for which it is well-known. The first it the Torre de Belém (pictured at the top of the post), located at the mouth of the Rio Tejo, where the river meets the Atlantic. The Torre was the embarkation point for the voyages of discovery in the country’s great era of maritime exploration. The other well-known landmark in…
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