
Torre de Belém - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.691652189603964, -9.215969383207815Built on the northern bank of the Tagus between 1514 and 1520 as part of the Tagus estuary defence system, the Tower of Belém is one of the architectural jewels of the reign of Manuel I. In the tower as a whole one can distinguish two distinct volumes and military architectural models: the mediaeval keep tower and the modern bulwark which, as it contained two artillery levels, allowed for long-distance cannon firing as well as ...

Forte de Santa Marta, Cascais - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.6906645919396, -9.421208371684521 It was built after 1640, as part of the Barra do Tejo defense plan, directed by the Count of Cantanhede. Equipped with a large battery compared to the fort and three juxtaposed rectangular bodies, with different areas, it crossed fire with the Citadel battery and defended the small mouth of Ribeira dos Mochos. In the second half of the 18th century it was the subject of several construction campaigns, the most significant being ...

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.698112850075525, -9.206629905588464The Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém, better known as Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, is a Portuguese monastery, built at the end of the 15th century by King D. Manuel I and was entrusted to the Order of São Jerónimo. It is located in the parish of Belém, in the city and municipality of Lisbon. It has, since 2016, the status of National Pantheon. The culmination of Manueline architecture, this monastery is the most notable Portuguese ...
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Torre de Belém - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.691652189603964, -9.215969383207815Built on the northern bank of the Tagus between 1514 and 1520 as part of the Tagus estuary defence system, the Tower of Belém is one of the architectural jewels of the reign of Manuel I. In the tower as a whole one can distinguish two distinct volumes and military architectural models: the mediaeval keep tower and the modern bulwark which, as it contained two artillery levels, allowed for long-distance cannon firing as well as ...

Forte de Santa Marta, Cascais - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.6906645919396, -9.421208371684521 It was built after 1640, as part of the Barra do Tejo defense plan, directed by the Count of Cantanhede. Equipped with a large battery compared to the fort and three juxtaposed rectangular bodies, with different areas, it crossed fire with the Citadel battery and defended the small mouth of Ribeira dos Mochos. In the second half of the 18th century it was the subject of several construction campaigns, the most significant being ...

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos - en
Versão portuguesa aqui. GPS 38.698112850075525, -9.206629905588464The Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém, better known as Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, is a Portuguese monastery, built at the end of the 15th century by King D. Manuel I and was entrusted to the Order of São Jerónimo. It is located in the parish of Belém, in the city and municipality of Lisbon. It has, since 2016, the status of National Pantheon. The culmination of Manueline architecture, this monastery is the most notable Portuguese ...
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Versão portuguesa aqui.
GPS 38.703768826539815, -9.402250246654205
Built on the ruins of an old 17th-century fort that took the name of a primitive chapel in honor of S. Roque, the house, commissioned by Carlos Francisco Ribeiro Ferreira, was designed by Raul Lino in 1902. greatly expanded in 1914, designed by the same architect.
The building, which in its genesis was smaller, had two bodies facing south: a transitional one, marked by a deliberate asymmetry of spans and another with a hipped roof, quite pronounced, suggesting the turret so typical of summer chalets , to which a large panoramic balcony adjoins, now glazed, facing the ocean.

From the 1914 intervention, the garages stand out, later transformed into houses, whose entrances are monumentalized by two tile panels, alluding to S. Roque and S. Cristóvão, work by the artist Pereira Cão. octagonal covered with a double roof and which the architect designated in his project as a pavilion attached to the main house.
The house expresses the models proposed by Raul Lino for the modern creation of the “Portuguese house”, affirmed in the fractionation of the bodies, reducing the multiplication of the facades and the roofs, in the porches, in the white of the facades marked by spans, of small dimensions, with moldings in stonework and the use of decorative tiles with compositions from religious records.
Full list of Geochaching below:
https://mirror.xyz/madeinpt.eth/I5tjF3sn6ugnUw3nBnKOpOUr2DEh_g6cTN-0hivKCgc
Versão portuguesa aqui.
GPS 38.703768826539815, -9.402250246654205
Built on the ruins of an old 17th-century fort that took the name of a primitive chapel in honor of S. Roque, the house, commissioned by Carlos Francisco Ribeiro Ferreira, was designed by Raul Lino in 1902. greatly expanded in 1914, designed by the same architect.
The building, which in its genesis was smaller, had two bodies facing south: a transitional one, marked by a deliberate asymmetry of spans and another with a hipped roof, quite pronounced, suggesting the turret so typical of summer chalets , to which a large panoramic balcony adjoins, now glazed, facing the ocean.

From the 1914 intervention, the garages stand out, later transformed into houses, whose entrances are monumentalized by two tile panels, alluding to S. Roque and S. Cristóvão, work by the artist Pereira Cão. octagonal covered with a double roof and which the architect designated in his project as a pavilion attached to the main house.
The house expresses the models proposed by Raul Lino for the modern creation of the “Portuguese house”, affirmed in the fractionation of the bodies, reducing the multiplication of the facades and the roofs, in the porches, in the white of the facades marked by spans, of small dimensions, with moldings in stonework and the use of decorative tiles with compositions from religious records.
Full list of Geochaching below:
https://mirror.xyz/madeinpt.eth/I5tjF3sn6ugnUw3nBnKOpOUr2DEh_g6cTN-0hivKCgc
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