7 landmarks in Santa Maria Maior with verified facts and stories most people walk right past.
Arco da Rua Augusta
2 Rua Augusta, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1100-053, Portugal
The Arco da Rua Augusta is the triumphal arch that took so long to build it forgot what it was triumphing over.
Castelo de São Jorge
Rua de Santa Cruz do Castelo, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1100-480, Portugal
Every civilization that conquered Lisbon started by taking this hill.
Convento do Carmo
Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, Portugal
Most ruins get rebuilt.
Miradouro de Santa Luzia
Largo de Santa Lúzia, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1100-487, Portugal
Of all Lisbon's miradouros, Santa Luzia is the prettiest one you'll actually find without getting lost.
Museu do Fado
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1100-288, Portugal
Fado is Portugal's answer to the blues — a music of longing, loss, and that untranslatable Portuguese word "saudade," which roughly means the bittersweet ache of missing something you once had, or might never have had at all.
Praça do Comércio
Praça do Comércio, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1100-148, Portugal
Before it became one of Europe's grandest plazas, this was a crime scene.
Rossio Square
Praça D Pedro IV, Santa Maria Maior, Lisboa, 1150-320, Portugal
The official name is Praça Dom Pedro IV, but nobody in Lisbon has called it that in centuries.
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