For Lisbon, unlike so much of the world, has not gone global: it remains resolutely Portuguese, looking out to sea, with its back to the rest of Europe and ... Get a map of the city, a pair ...

Going over to western Europe, the city that holds the crown for being the most western capital city, according to NCESC, is Lisbon in Portugal. A popular holiday destination for tourists ...

However, bringing comfortable walking shoes and a good map are good ideas regardless. Perched on a hill to the east of downtown, Alfama is Lisbon's most famous district and is a vestige of the ...

Photograph by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco ... Navy Museum, Lisbon Photograph by DEA/Album Fittingly for ...