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Sunday 18 October 2015

Lisbon - Bank of Portugal's Museum of Money and the Wall

There is a city block in downtown Lisbon that houses the bank of Portugal. Inside they are making a museum of money, but its not open fully yet. Below is their concert hall and presentation room where the church of Sao Julio used to exist.
This is the entrance to their museum of currency. The little safe to the left holds a gold bar that you can lift. As I've read and seen on shows, gold is really dense and it was hard to lift with one hand.
While renovating they discovered something from Lisbon's past, the wall that King Denis built to protect Lisbon from pirates and attackers in the 13th century. Many other artifacts were discovered and are on display. The wall, like many other things in Lisbon, was heavily damaged in the 1755 earthquake and was built over and forgotten.


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