Took a bus thru Lisbon. The tour guide gave us a local drink. There had been a festival the night before so the streets were in the middle of being cleaned up. They needed it. The town generally looked on the dingy side. Would have been nice to see more of it, but it was not impressive enough to warrant it.
The Paseo dos Descobrimentos was certainly a unique piece of architecture. This monument consists of a 52 metre-high slab of concrete, carved into the shape of the prow of a ship. The side that faces away from the river features a carved sword stretching the full height of the monument. It was conceived by Portuguese artists, architect Cottinelli Telmo and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida as a temporary beacon of the Portuguese World Fair in 1940. The Monument to the Discoveries represents a romantic idealisation of the Portuguese past that was typical during the regime of Salazar.