National Pantheon
Baroque mausoleum sheltering tombs of Portugal's greatest poets, explorers, and singers.
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This guide to the National Pantheon in Lisbon opens with a 1630 execution on this site and the curse an innocent man is said to have spoken before he died — that the church built here would never be finished. It follows the building's collapse, its decades under architect João Antunes, and the roofless stone shell that stood for more than two centuries, long enough to give Portuguese a phrase for a job that never ends. Look at the grand cenotaphs along the walls, memorials to explorers and poets who are buried elsewhere.
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