Belem

Sunday morning we took the bus out to Belem, down the river a few miles, in an area the 1755 earthquake did not destroy, and which contains several of Lisbon's major monuments.

The Coach Museum; early in the 20th, the Queen of Portugal

realized that coaches were going to become a thing of the past,

and so she converted the Royal Stables to a museum of royal

coaches; a fun place

Central nave of coach museum

Not solid gold, hopefully

The landau in which King Carlos and his son, the heir, were

assassinated, 1908; pretty much the end of the monarchy in

Portugal

Bullet holes...

The Rio Tejo, Portugal's great river; we encountered it later

upstream in Toledo; by the time it reaches Lisbon, it is an

estuary, like the Gironde in Bordeaux; the bridge was done

by the same firm that did the Golden Gate in Fan Francisco;

the Jesus statue on the right

The San Geronimo monastery in Belem; more later