Video : Belém Tower from the sky
Portugal in photos - Belém Tower Postcard by aportugueselove Browse other Portugal photo Postcards Belém Tower was completed in 1521. Imagine the sailors who crossed the Atlantic or rounded the Cape of Good Hope to India returning home in their ships and preparing to enter the big Tagus river mouth - that would be the first sign of land they saw. In 1983 UNESCO classified it as a World Heritage Site . Belém Tower was built in the Age of the Discoveries as a tribute to the patron saint of the city, Saint Vicente. That's why she's called Saint Vicente's Tower. But most people know it as Belém Tower. This tower planted in the water was part of Lisbon's defense by the time of King João II. It's a beautiful monument that contains North African Moorish-styled watchtowers, Manueline decorations, and symbols of the King’s power like cables encircling the building terminating knots, armillary spheres, and crosses of the Military Order of Christ. Also natural...