Jewish tour (4h)

We will visit Shaare Tiekwa (Close on Friday, Saturday and Sunday), built by donations of the Lisbon Jewish colony in 1904, whose architect was Ventura Terra. The facade shows a mixture of several motives from different styles, with ten high fists with stained glass windows. At the interior paintings from Veloso Salgado can be seen as well as a magnificent silver lamp by Cristofanetti. Following to Rossio we will cross Marquês de Pombal Square. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the Marquis of Pombal as the name shows, himself from Jewish origin. It was under his government as Prime Minister of the King Joseph I, from 1750-1777, and by decree, that the distinction between New Christians and Old Christians finished.In Rossio, one of the main spots of the Holy Office headquarters in Lisbon, and the place where the condemned by the Inquisition were burned.We finish our tour in Alfama, crossing Praça de Comércio (short stop to admire the square, this was also a place used by the Inquisition for their public activities), one of Lisbon's oldest quarters into Rua da Judiaria in the Old Jewish Quarter, with its narrow cobbled streets.

In this tour you will become acquainted to:

* The Jewish districts of the City

* Sephardite Synegogue

* Their commercial relevance in the maritime trade

* Forced conversion to Christianism

* The Pessah massacre

* Establishment of the Inquisition

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