Miradouro de Santa Luzia

This guide to Miradouro de Santa Luzia in Lisbon starts with a ceramic panel on the church wall beside the terrace, showing Praca do Comercio as it looked on the morning of November 1st, 1755. It traces the terrace back further still, to Moorish sentries who once watched from this ridge and the Knights of the Order of Malta who built a church here after the 1147 siege of Lisbon. You'll hear how the earthquake reshaped this spot, and why the tiled scenes were added in the twentieth century. Stand at the pergola railing for the best view over Alfama's rooftops toward the Tagus.