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In 1384, the city was besieged by King Juan I of Castille, as a part of the ongoing 1383–1385 Crisis. The result of the siege was a victory for the Portuguese led by Nuno Álvares Pereira. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 true true Original upload log Prominent private museums and galleries include the Gulbenkian Museum (run by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the wealthiest foundations in the world), which houses one of the largest private collections of antiquaries and art in the world, the Berardo Collection Museum, which houses the private collection of Portuguese billionaire Joe Berardo, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, and the Museum of the Orient. Other popular museums include the Electricity Museum, the Ephemeral Museum, the Museu da Água, and the Museu Benfica, among many others.
Meeting Spotlight | The meeting planner destination resource". meetingspotlight.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020 . Retrieved 7 April 2020.Top 100 City Destinations: 2019 Edition | Euromonitor". Euromonitor International . Retrieved 24 August 2023. World Youth Day 2023 was hosted in August of that year in Lisbon, attracting hundreds of thousands of young Catholics from over 140 countries. [88] Demographics [ edit ] Historical population Year
William Harris Stahl; E. L. Burge; Richard Johnson (June 1992). Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts: The Marriage of Philology and Mercury. Vol.II. Columbia University Press. p.233. ISBN 978-0-231-09636-2. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023 . Retrieved 4 September 2019. Lisbon is the sixth most popular city for business tourism". www.theportugalnews.com . Retrieved 24 August 2023. Central Intelligence Agency (2021). The CIA World Factbook 2021-2022. Simon and Schuster. p.3319. ISBN 978-1-5107-6382-1. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023 . Retrieved 14 January 2023.Lisbon's name may have been derived from Proto-Celtic or Celtic Olisippo, Lissoppo, or a similar name which other visiting peoples like the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans adapted accordingly, such as the pre-Roman appellation for the Tagus River, Lisso or Lucio. Classical authors writing in Latin and Greek, including Strabo, Solinus, and Martianus Capella, [22] [23] referred to popular legends that the city of Lisbon was founded by the mythical hero Ulysses ( Odysseus). [24] [25] Lisbon's name was written Ulyssippo in Latin by the geographer Pomponius Mela, a native of Hispania. It was later referred to as "Olisippo" by Pliny the Elder and by the Greeks as Olissipo (Ὀλισσιπών) or Olissipona (Ὀλισσιπόνα). [26] [27]
About 2.9 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, which extends beyond the city's administrative area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona as well as the 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union. [4] [10] It represents approximately 27.7% of the country's population. It is also the political centre of the country, as its seat of government, National Assembly, Supreme Court of Justice, Armed Forces and residence of the head of state. It is also the centre of Portuguese diplomacy, with ambassadors from 86 countries residing in the city. [11] Parque das Nações (Park of Nations) is the newest district in Lisbon; it emerged from an urban renewal program to host the 1998 World Exhibition of Lisbon, also known as Expo'98. The area suffered massive changes giving Parque das Nações a futuristic look. A long-lasting legacy of the same, the area has become another commercial and higher-end residential area for the city. at the intersection of the lower edges of the ecliptic's posterior half and of the equator's anterior half ( dexter or viewer's left side); and In the 1990s, many of the districts were renovated and projects in the historic quarters were established to modernise those areas, for instance, architectural and patrimonial buildings were renovated, the northern margin of the Tagus was re-purposed for leisure and residential use, the Vasco da Gama Bridge was constructed and the eastern part of the municipality was re-purposed for Expo '98 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India, a voyage that would bring immense riches to Lisbon and cause many of Lisbon's landmarks to be built.
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The coat of arms of Lisbon is the official symbol of the municipality of Lisbon. Dating to the 12th century, it is one of the oldest heraldic symbols of any city in Portugal. White, Christopher (6 August 2023). "Pope Francis to 1.5 million youth in Portugal: Be 'beacons of hope in dark times' ". National Catholic Reporter . Retrieved 2 October 2023. June is Lisbon's holiday in honour of the city's saint, Anthony of Lisbon ( Portuguese: Santo António). Saint Anthony, also known as Saint Anthony of Padua, was a wealthy Portuguese bohemian who was canonised and made Doctor of the Church after a life preaching to the poor. Although Lisbon’s patron saint is Saint Vincent of Saragossa, whose remains are housed in the Sé Cathedral, there are no festivities associated with this saint. Lisboa no top 10 dos aeroportos com mais passageiros". TSF Rádio Notícias (in European Portuguese). 29 April 2022 . Retrieved 23 August 2023.
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