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VIEWS FROM A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
#22 - LISBON, PORTUGAL
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1891
Lithographer: Joseph P. Knapp
  
Illustrations: A Sport; Royal Castle; Belem Castle; A Lisbon Lady; Lisbon
from Fort Almeida
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| LISBON, PORTUGAL. |
| This city is one of
great antiquity, supposed by some
to date from the time of Ulysses,
but its foundation is generally
ascribed to the Phoenicians. Its
location is on the north and west
banks of the Tagus. The Castle of
Belem defends the approach to the
city, the Tagus being at this
point not over a mile in breadth,
but above Lisbon expands into a
spacious and magnificent harbor.
The position of Lisbon is one of
the finest in the world, and
specially adapted to the purposes
of commerce. At the time of the
great earthquake in 1755, it was
at the height of prosperity, when
in ten minutes the most important
portion of the town was a mass of
ruins. That part of the city has
been rebuilt with fine houses and
wide streets. It is divided into
four quarters, two of which are
Rocio, the newly built portion,
and Alfama, the old quarter which
escaped the earthquake. |
| Lisbon
is held by some to be the most
remarkable city in the peninsula,
and perhaps in the south of
Europe, and quite as much
deserving the notice of artists
as Rome itself. There is a noble
aqueduct comparable in beauty and
solidity with the most remarkable
works of the Romans. Its
construction occupied nineteen
years of the early part of last
century. Its principal arches
cross the valley to the northeast
of Lisbon, which is thus supplied
with cool and delicious water
from a distant source. There are
many public squares, the most
important of which is the Praca
do Commercio, containing the
principal public edifices. The
south side is open to the water,
to which flights of steps lead
down. Two columns mark the place
where the earth opened in 1755
and swallowed up the marble quay.
The Palace of Ajuda, one of the
Royal residences, stands on the
summit of a hill, its pure Greek
architecture presenting a
striking contrast to the
surrounding Moorish and Gothic
buildings. |
| Population 1878, 246,343. |
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