Lisbon Cathedral

This guide to Lisbon Cathedral opens with a fleet of crusaders blown off course toward Jerusalem in May 1147, and their bargain with a young Portuguese king who wanted Lisbon's Moorish walls taken. It follows the four-month siege that decided the city's fate, and one Englishman, Gilbert of Hastings, who stayed behind after the others sailed on. You'll hear why Lisbon's new bishop chose the site he did for the city's first cathedral, and what his builders found waiting beneath the ground. Walk into the cloister to see the excavation for yourself.