Month: July 2022

  • Adamastor Viewpoint (Santa Catarina)

    What are we seeing? Yes, it’s Adamastor. Adamastor is at the Santa Catarina viewpoint. Adamastor is in each of us. Adamastor is everywhere. After all, what is Adamastor? Adamastor is the fear that prevents us from acting. In his epic poem “Os Lusíadas” (1578), Camões places the Adamastor as a giant on the Cape of…

  • Alfama, where Lisbon was born

    No one can say they know the capital of Portugal without getting lost in Alfama, where Lisbon was born. During the first millennium BC. the great civilizations of the Mediterranean (Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians) established permanent occupation in Alfama (which was not yet called that) as a support base for their navigations between the Mediterranean and…

  • Baixa, the city of Pombal

    Baixa, the city of Pombal, is the flat area of Lisbon that starts at Squares of Rossio and Figueira to the north and extends south to Square of Commerce where the city opens onto Tagus river. Baixa, before the 18th century was a part of the city that had grown poorly, with crooked and narrow…