Miradouro de Santa Catarina
Hilltop viewpoint presided over by a stone sea-giant from Camões' epic, with Tagus River panoramas.
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This guide to the Miradouro de Santa Catarina in Lisbon centers on the stone giant Adamastor, drawn from Luís de Camões' 1572 epic Os Lusíadas about Vasco da Gama's voyage to India. You'll hear how the giant confronts da Gama's fleet as it rounds the Cape of Storms, and the story he tells about a sea nymph named Thetis and the gods who punished him for it. It also traces the terrace itself, from centuries of Lisbonites watching ships depart to the statue's placement here in 1927 and its life today as a sunset gathering spot known locally as Rooftop.
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