January 2008. This is article #11 in the Portugal series.

Situated at the mouth of the Tagus River about a third of the way up the Atlantic coast, Lisbon is Portugal’s capital and most important seaport. It’s a compact people-oriented and inexpensive city of about 600,000. Like San Francisco, it is built on seven hills, and has known a series of earthquakes, the most destructive being the “Great Quake” of 1755, when only the hilltop areas and a few historic buildings in the heart of the city escaped ... (more)