Capela-Farol de São Miguel-o-Anjo

This guide to the Capela-Farol de São Miguel-o-Anjo in Porto follows Dom Miguel da Silva, a Rome-educated diplomat exiled from the royal court to a windswept sandbar where the Douro meets the Atlantic. You'll hear how he turned that banishment into a building project, hiring the Italian architect Francesco Cremona to raise a tower where ships had wrecked for generations. Look for the carved inscription that still names Silva and the year he paid for it himself.