{"id":1481,"date":"2021-11-26T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruisingkabaal.nl\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:22:17","slug":"21-sparkling-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cruisingkabaal.nl\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"21 Roaming a luscious Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The sixteenth century Torre de Bel\u00e9m welcomes us to sunny Lisbon. Sailing up the Tagus river is a memorable experience on this trip. The Torre makes an interesting contrast to the 2016 MAAT museum which differs itself with the adjacent beautifully restored power plant. MAAT stands for Museum of Art Architecture and Technology and was finished in 2016, designed by the British architect Amanda Levete. From a distance it looks like a giant sharks head and the clever use of tiles makes the surface look like scales of a fish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old and quaint streets of Lisbon don\u2019t cease to charm us and we enjoy old fashioned coffee houses, stores and trams. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once you fancy a cup of coffee it is never far away. We happened to end up in one of Lisbon\u2019s oldest confeitar\u00edas which turned out to be a Belle \u00c9poque artists caf\u00e9 where many original artworks still adorned the walls. Outside we saw a bronze Fernando Pessoa drinking coffee from his bronze cup.<\/mark> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old cloister Mosteiro dos J\u00e9ronimos in Bel\u00e9m dates from the sixteenth century and was recently restored. King Manuel had it built with money from the colonies in a time when Portugal ruled the world seas and made many discoveries.
Vasco da Gama himself spent the night here, praying with his crew before he set out to discover the route by sea to India in 1497<\/mark>. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being in Portugal made us real fans of the sweet and tasty past\u00e9is de nata so being in Bel\u00e9m we simply had to try the original: the Past\u00e9is de Bel\u00e9m. Here the very first past\u00e9is saw the light and the story tells that the necessary egg yolks came from the cloister where the whites were used as starch for the clothes of the monks. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 18th century parts of Lisbon were destroyed by an earthquake. The results can still be seen in the Convento do Carmo and it\u2019s church. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ai Weiwei, an artist of whom we saw an exhibition when we were with Kabaal in Copenhagen, nowadays lives in Portugal. He has his own museum in an old rope factory in Bel\u00e9m. Once more we were impressed by his involvement and the risks he takes by challenging social issues and promote human rights worldwide. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Join us on a tram ride in the video below<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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