THE CATHEDRAL-SÉ
Eight centuries ago in 1160 Afonso Henriques, first King of Portugal, founded the cathedral, Thirteen years after he captured the city from the Moors. Two violent earthquakes have damaged the interior, but the fine Romanesque façade with its twin towers stands unchanged since the twelfth century.
Opposite the cathedral the eighteenth century church of Santo António da Sé was built on the site of the house where St. Anthony of Padua was born.

ESTUFA FRIA
Parque Eduardo VII- Literally a “ cold greenhouse “, the Estufa Fria is a romantic plant house of palms, lilies, and tropical plants naturally arranged with rocks and streams like some tropical ravine.

MONUMENT TO THE DISCOVERIES
Unveiled in 1960, the quincentenary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator, the monument commemorates the great voyages of discorre madre by Portuguese navigators under his influence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Prince Henry himself stands on the prow at the head of a procession of navigators, cartographers, soldiers, governors and missionaries.

CHURCH OF MADRE DE DEUS
The loveliest church in Lisbon, Madre de Deus has a plain sixteenth century façade, na incredibly rich interior decorated to the order of King John V in the early eighteenth century. The Nave is lined with huge panels of blue and white tiles, the walls and ceiling encrusted with paintings in gorgeous gilt frames. In the former convent leading off the church is a delightful miniature two storey marble cloister in the Manueline style, and upstairs we can see a collection of early tiles, a painting of jerusalem attributed to Durer, and the superb choir of thr church.

CHURCH OF SÃO ROQUE
Largo Trindade Coelho- Founded in the mid-sixteenth century,this former Jesuit church houses the most expensive chapel of its size ever built, the Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Madre of precious materials, agate, alabaster, amenthyst, lapis lazuli, it was constructed in Vanvitelli´s workshops in Rome in 1742 to the order of Portugal´s most extravagant monarch, John V.
Once assembled, the chapel was taken to pieces again, packed and shipped to Portugal, where it took a year to reassenble in São Roque. Next door to the church, a museum contains a treasury of rich vestments, altar cloths, and church plate.