Padrao dos Descobrimentos

The experience

This 52-metre monument on the Belem riverfront, shaped like a caravel's prow, was raised in 1960 to mark 500 years since the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Along its flanks a procession of 33 stone figures from the Age of Discoveries leads the way. A lift climbs to a rooftop viewpoint over the river and the compass-rose plaza below.

A dramatic modernist salute to the age of exploration, with a rooftop view over the Tagus.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.