Canon looking out over greater Lisbon and the bay.
Chuck and Lindsay, relaxing with the Roman ruins.
At one of the lookouts, the city below is clearly visible.
Lisbon has a walled castle at it's old city center at the top of one of the 7 hills in the city. The castle is located at a strategic point to overlook the bay out to the Atlantic Ocean. There is also a city inside the walls of the medieval section of the city. The castle is known as Sao Jorge (St. George) Castle. There are also some Roman remains within the castle walls. The castle itself is very well preserved. This site is very similar to Carcassonne (earlier in our travels), but the surrounding city is much larger than Carcassonne.
A word about Futbol... the Celtic team was playing the Lisbon futbol team tonight (Lisbon won). two days ago the Celtic team fans descended on the city. They took over one of the main town squares, put up an Irish flag there on one of the monuments, placed banners of every sort at other locations around the square (the squares here are huge). The fans wearing green and white stripes literally were everywhere in the city, but the square was a sea of green and white. They took over a number of local drinking establishments in the vicinity of the square. They got louder and more boisterous as today (game day) wore on. We saw no show of the Lisbon team fans. The city around this large square became like a tailgate party for the Celtic fans. About 2 hours before game time, they all started to head towards the Futbol Stadium. How these young men (for the most part) can afford to do this during the week is a mystery to us. The huge numbers, and the basic acceptance of the locals gave us the idea that this is pretty common when a team comes to town. Neither team was playing a championship game or a playoff. It was a typical season game, we were told. Hopefully no games will be scheduled in Madrid while we are there. This was an eye opening experience. We saw no trouble, no problems, but it was a bit unnerving to be in crowds with these super fans because they were quite loud and energetic.
Canon looking out over greater Lisbon and the bay.
Chuck and Lindsay, relaxing with the Roman ruins.
At one of the lookouts, the city below is clearly visible.
Lisbon has a walled castle at it's old city center at the top of one of the 7 hills in the city. The castle is located at a strategic point to overlook the bay out to the Atlantic Ocean. There is also a city inside the walls of the medieval section of the city. The castle is known as Sao Jorge (St. George) Castle. There are also some Roman remains within the castle walls. The castle itself is very well preserved. This site is very similar to Carcassonne (earlier in our travels), but the surrounding city is much larger than Carcassonne.
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