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Lisbon, the center of future without wars...

Lisbon is built on the terraced sides of 7 hills (like Rome, what Lisbon wanted to be for the Arian Christianity in the early years of the second millennium with it's founders, and even before) over looking the port.
In the older section the streets are narrow. The newer section has straight, broad, tree-lined avenues, handsome squares, and extensive public gardens. Lisbon contains many old churches, convents, and monasteries. It is also the site of the Romanesque-Gothic cathedral built in the 12th century and partially ruined by earthquakes (in particular the one of 1755, the greatest) reported in the human recent history; 8,75 on the Richter scale, according with "the World Almanac").
There are many things to discover in Lisbon. In the picture, there is the Tower of Belem, in the west of Lisbon, near the old Lisbon port. It was built in 1521 as a lookout and a fortress for Portuguese ships. At that time also the Jeronimos Monastery (near the Tower of Belem), the Castelo da Pena in Sintra and the Convento de Cristo in Tomar (a templair city) were built. The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos is a building made by Botaica and Joao de Castilho (and thousands of masons) to mark the discovery of the sea passage to India by the navigator Vasco da Gama. It contains the tombs of Manuel I (during his kingdom Portugal discovered the maritime way to reach India with Vasco da Gama and to reach the Brazil with Pedro Alvaro Cabral). Da Gama and the Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camoes have also their tombs in the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos.

Templar Knigth: Lisbon was "free" from the "muslim's invasion" occurred in 711, with the help of the II cruzade. Templairs decided then, with the King Afonso Henriques that Portugal could be "The Place" to rebuilt the world...

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