The Elevador da Gloria funicular climbs the steep hill to Bairro Alto

A tired pedestrian rests her feet under the shady trees on Liberdade Street

Great view across the city to Castelo de Sao Jorge

Looking towards the harbor from the top of the Elevador Santa Justa

The National Theater faces the attractively-paved Rossio Square with the imposing statue of Dom Pedro, the first Emperor of Brazil

The skeletal roof arches are what remains of the Gothic Carmelite Church Igreja do Carmo after the devastating 1755 earthquake

16th-century Manueline-styled Mosteiro dos Jeronimos monastery

The 2-km. long Ponte 25 de Abril suspension bridge across the Tejo River. Note the 100-meter high statue of Christ on the right

Monument to the Discoveries built in 1960 to mark the 5ooth Death Anniversary of a Portuguese Great, Henry the Navigator