Jardim da Estrela
Leafy city park with a duck pond and bandstand, beside a historic British cemetery.
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This guide to the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon follows Henry Fielding, the English novelist behind Tom Jones, who sailed to Lisbon in 1754 chasing a last hope that the climate might cure his failing health. It traces the British Cemetery just beyond the garden gate, and the six-decade fight, blocked by the Portuguese Inquisition, before England's subjects finally won a burial plot in the city in 1717. The gate is open most mornings, past headstones and war graves that reach back three centuries.
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