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Among European capitals, Lisbon ranks among those with the warmest winters and has the mildest winter nights out of any major European city.

Lisbon is recognized as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, fashion, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism.

Most of the Portuguese expeditions of the Age of Discovery left Lisbon during the period from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century,

In the distance is the Cristo Rei Lisbon – a gigantic statue of Jesus – stands south of the Lisbon city center across the Tagus River on a hill in Almada. The 92-foot-tall statue of Christ stands on a 269-foot-tall base and is one of the most recognizable of all the Lisbon statues and monuments.

Rossio Square you find the Column of Peter IV, built in 1870, the former King of Portugal. It is located in the Pombaline Downtown of Lisbon and has been one of its main squares since the Middle Ages. It has been the setting of popular revolts and celebrations, bullfights and executions, and is now a preferred meeting place of Lisbon natives and tourists alike.

Shops on both sides of the walking street with outdoor seating in restaurants as you walk the Chiado area.

The Santa Justa Lift ,Elevador de Santa Justa, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo, Carmo Square.

Walking downtown streets there was this bakery calling. Look at all the sweets just waiting to go home with you.

The Praça do Comércio is a large, harbour-facing plaza in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, and is one of the largest in Portugal,

The Rua Augusta Arch is a stone, memorial arch-like, historical building and visitor attraction in Lisbon, Portugal, on the Praça do Comércio. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake

Arches surrounding the Praca do Comercio.

Does this mean what I think it means? Yep it is the Bastard Fish Bar.

The turn of the 19th century architecture of the buildings to the south of the Rossio Square. The Baixa Pombaline, Downtown is a neighborhood in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. It consists of the grid of streets north of the Praça do Comércio, roughly between the Cais do Sodré and the Alfama district beneath the Lisbon Castle.

The Rossio has been a meeting place for people of Lisbon for centuries. Some of the cafés and shops of the square date from the 18th century, like the Café Nicola, where poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage used to meet friends.

The building of the Maria II Theatre, behind the Column of Pedro IV in the distance and the Public Gardens to the north of the square only made the area more attended by Lisbon high society in the 19th century. Nowadays it is constantly populated by Lisboners and tourists. The undulating tiles give you the sensation of waves underneath as you walk.

Driving the narrow streets in the hills of Lisbon

The next morning we leave Lisbon and drive to Mafra for the day. Mafra is a city and a municipality in the district of Lisbon, on the west coast of Portugal. Here you see the front of The Palace of Mafra.

Inner gardens of the Palace of Mafra and the Royal Building of Mafra is a monumental Baroque and Neoclassical palace-monastery.

Construction began in 1717 completed in 1755.

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