Lisbon Sights

Main drag, Lisbon; is Liverpool its sister-

city?

Aboard streetcar #28

Lisbon castle; we walked up to it later

About 47 churches/cathedrals

At a church on one of the major hilltop vistas, a tile

depiction of old Lisbon, as it was before 1755

The companion, the storming of Lisbon castle in the

reconquista

So European...

This is interesting: an old structure is being gutted and

rebuilt (as is much of old Lisbon, with major EU funding)

from the inside out; only the beautiful tiled walls, supported

 by all the metal structure, will remain

At an antique tile store near the castle: we swear this is the

very pattern, or really close, to the one we chose for our

kitchen renovation in Dallas, c. 1985; right, Rebecca and

Rachel? We did not pay 30 euros a tile, for sure...

From the Gulbenkian, we took the Metro further into town and then did a couple Rickie Stevie walks, conjoined with a couple streetcar rides (#12 and #28). It's a fascinating city, complex, much of it destroyed in the 1755 earthquake, then rebuilt along more modern (=post-medieval) lines.