In Lisbon in 2009, where I went to yet another conference, this one on access to medical abortion pills, we took the tram down along the water to where all the museums could be found, e.g. the nautical museum, the contemporary art museum, an enormous former monastery, and much more, including this lighthouse. It wasn’t my favourite at the time, but it’s growing on me even as I study it now. It’s certainly the only brown and beige striped lighthouse I’ve encountered, and it is quite petite compared to others, with a lovely shape. And that day certainly boasted the bluest sky I have ever seen.
But the really spectacular monument on that long pier was this one. You can see how enormous it is from the size of the people walking toward it.
Here’s what its prow (it was of a ship) looked like closer up. A huge impressive sculpture, try to imagine how it was done.
