Belém Tower and the view from a roof

To continue from the previous post, we walked from the Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries to the Torre de Belém (Belém Tower). It was scorching hot; I was trying to hide my bare arms on the side of my body away from the sun. It was a pity I didn’t choose to wear long sleeves that day…

more boats

at the end on the left, you can see Belém Tower

looking back to the Monument to the Discoveries (again, you can see the statue across the river)

Next to the Belém Tower, there is a garden.

aeroplane (I don't know what it's supposed to symbolize)

Unfortunately the tower was closed for renovations. The fact that it was closed was not such a big deal to us (not sure whether there was an entrance fee), but that it was being renovated was, because it was all covered up!

taking a selfie anyway

a photo including the surroundings

After that, we took a Bolt to MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, or in Portuguese, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia). We visited it mainly to walk on top of the museum, not to go inside.

This Bolt driver was lousy; he dropped us off at a stretch of road beside the museum which was fenced off. We had to ask someone across the fence (thankfully there was someone there) who managed to let us know that we needed to walk back quite a bit to be able to go up. 

the slope leading up

You can see an overhead bridge for pedestrians to walk over the main road to the other side.

looking down from the top of the roof to the neighbourhood on the other side of the main road (the overhead bridge can be seen peeking in on the left)

sea (river?) view

zoom in, where we can see (again) the Sanctuary of Christ the King (Santuário de Cristo Rei) across the river

Now for a few panoramic shots, so that we can see how huge the rooftop is.

again, the pedestrian bridge on the left

on the other side, we can see the Monument to the Discoveries

I snapped another photo from a lower part of the roof, looking up from ground level. The roof has wide sloping steps.

That's all for Belém! After that we took a Bolt back to Lisbon, where we had lunch and then visited a park near our hotel...but that will be for the next post.