Travel to lisbon

beautypics (61)in #lisbon • 7 years ago (edited)

Down through the dark trees
You came to save me
You're so ugly & you're so beautiful
You're like no one on earth could be... ❤️

All of my life I've been waiting for you
I wanna be the one that you take home
Let me be the one
Cause I'm so lonely..... ❤️

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Good morning my friends 🙂🌼

What's up with a delicious breakfast? 😝
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Easy & simple
Try it . 🙌🏻

After a yummy breakfast , let me introduce lisbon for you 😝

Lisbon is the stunning capital city of Portugal, and is one of the most charismatic and vibrant cities of Western Europe. It is a city that effortlessly blends traditional heritage, with striking modernism and progressive thinking
As a holiday destination, Lisbon offers a rich and varied history, lively nightlife and is blessed with a glorious year-round climate.

A holiday to Lisbon can also be easily extended into a seven day vacation by including popular day trips, such as Sintra, Cascais, Mafra, Obidos or Sesimbra, or by coming Lisbon with a couple of days relaxing on the beautiful beaches.

Wander down (to save your legs) through Alfama's steep, narrow, cobblestoned streets and catch a glimpse of the more traditional side of Lisbon before it too is gentrified. Linger in a backstreet cafe along the way and experience some local bonhomie without the tourist gloss.

The Ponte Vasco da Gama Lisbon is a massive 17km long bridge that spans the shallow but wide Tagus Estuary to the east of Lisbon. This massive bridge was once Europe longest bridge and was named after Portugal’s great explorer Vasco da Gama. The Ponte Vasco da Gama is certainly not as charismatic as the Lisbon’s other bridge the golden arched Ponte 25 de Abril but its sheer size and ability just to stretch out into the horizon is an engineering marvel.

Lisbon has always been plagued with traffic issues and during the mid 90’s traveling south out of Lisbon had become intolerable with the 6 lane Ponte 25 de Abril simply unable to handle the volumes of commuters. Suggestions for a new bridge had been bounced around for decades but the distance to traverse, poor foundations and possibility of seismic activity had always pushed the construction costs beyond that of which the government could afford.

The hosting of the world fair in 1998 (Expo 98) necessitated the second bridge and a novel way to fund the bridge was devised which would cost the Portuguese tax payers absolute nothing. The Portuguese government tended the building, maintenance and, most importantly, the collection of the road tolls to private companies, who would be able to raise the estimated 1 billion dollars to construct the bridge. A private consortium, Lusoponte, agreed to build the bridge but hold exclusive control of toll collection for both of Lisbon’s bridges for 40 years.

All of this is what makes lisbon such a memorable and charming city for seasoned travellers, although there are also the ostentatious palaces & old churches typical of any great historical capital, and the stunning contemporary architecture expected in any great modern city.

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7 years ago in #lisbon by beautypics (61)

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webdeals (75) 7 years ago

here we are :) a tiny up ;)

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yoshiko (72) 7 years ago

Thank you for posting!I am looking forward to going to Portugal in November.It will be a wonderful journey like this post:D
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