We walked down to LX Factory (click here last year's pics here) to see what's new and on our way back, we walked up a street looking for a place for lunch/dinner (i.e. linner) and found a new place that was fabulous. We enjoy getting off the primary tourist route and discovering what a neighborhood has to offer. So far, we haven't been disappointed. Didn't feel like it, but when we got home later in the afternoon, I discovered we walked 7.2 miles today. Maybe it didn't seem that much, because we broke up the day with a train ride to and from Belem.
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Cafe Da Eli just across the street from us was open this morning
so we gave it a try and we're glad we did. We met Maria, a poet,
children's author, and TV & radio personality. She handed us a
book entitled Lisbon Urban Sketches and said, "For you." We
recognized it right away; we thumbed through it last year. So
we took a closer look and after breakfast handed it back, thank-
ing her and she said, "No it's for you to have. I have many books."
And then we had a lovely chat and are looking forward to seeing
her again tomorrow morning.
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The line for Jeronimos Monastery. Click
Start it at 17:10min. That's probably as
close as we'll get to seeing inside as well.
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Because Santa Maria Church doesn't have an entrance fee we were able to walk right in. Last year, even the line for the church was excessive. It's crowded, but because the church is massive, you don't notice the crowd until trying to take a picture. Construction on Santa Maria and Jeronimos Monastery was begun in 1501 and finished 100 years later. The architectural style is Late Gothic Manueline—think over-the-top wedding cake decoration up the wing-wang! It's an impressive church all the same.
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| Luis Vaz de Camoes, one of Portugal's greatest poets (1524-1580) captured the exploits of Portuguese navigators, especially Vasco da Gama in his epic poem "Os LusÃadas". This work is often compared to Virgil's "Aeneid". |
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| This 1938 pipe organ is the only mismatched item in this church. |
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| Vasco de Gama's tomb. |
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St. Anthony Chapel was gilded with
gold, probably from Brazil, in the late 17th century. |
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| The side entrance to Santa Maria is 105' high and 40' wide and the Manueline (i.e. wedding cake) style is impressive. |
I took this video to give you a sense of the line for the monastery.
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| We left the line behind and starting walking to LX Factory. This wisteria was wrapped around the fence of the former municipal library. |
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| Keep your eyes peeled for cool art scattered around LX Factory. |
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| LX Factory is a wild & crazy place. |
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| The applause sign cost 74 Euros. |
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| Pink doves take flight over the street. |
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| We found this place up a tree-lined street on our way back to catch the train back to Cascais. Our goal was to find a good place for our midday meal and we did. We weren't sure about it at first, because of what it said under it's name, but when we read the menu posted outside, we knew we had a winner. |
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By the time we remembered to snap a pic of the bruschetta
this is all that was left of it. This one's Marie's. They came
on a cutting board floating in fresh pesto & olive oil. OMG! |
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| And this is what's left of mine. |
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| We also shared a Caesar salad with tandoori chicken. The salads are huge so we share them. |
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We actually had room today for dessert, sharing this pana cotta
with blackberry preserves.
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And that did it for us. We enjoyed an espresso afterward and that helped fortify us for the two mile walk back to the Belem Train Station.
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