Belém District and the Salazar Dictatorship Legacy Walking Tour
Lisbon, Portugal
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Belém is the most majestic and tourist district of Lisbon since the Portuguese World Exhibition of 1940, a rare peak of celebration during four severe decades of Salazar in power. In this tour we will rewind the amazing festive event of the dictatorship during the Second World War, while we admire what was left for posterity.
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Belém is the most majestic and tourist district of Lisbon since the Portuguese World Exhibition of 1940, a rare peak of celebration during four severe decades of Salazar in power. In this tour we will rewind the amazing festive event of the dictatorship during the Second World War, while we admire what was left for posterity.Belém is the beach from where departed the ships of the Portuguese discoveries, where King Manuel ordered the construction of the majestic Jeronimos Monastery and also where the President has its official residence since the advent of the Republic. But what turned Belém into the most majestic and tourist district of Lisbon was the Portuguese World Exhibition in 1940, a rare peak of celebration during four severe decades of Salazar in power. In this tour we will rewind the amazing festive event of the dictatorship during the Second World War, while we admire what was left for posterity, including the Square of the Empire, the Monument of the Discoveries and the the exotic "Portuguese House for the Colonies".
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