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Brazil, Africa, India, China, and more - all in teen widows for cannons placed to defend
the effort to dominate the world’s spice the river and Lisbon. It’s possible to go in-
trade. Very impressive, especially since they side, but it was closed the day we visited.
returned with riches far more valuable than One interesting feature on the tower fa-
spices for the king’s coffers. cade is a curious stone gargoyle in the shape
Our last tour stop was Belém Tower, built of a rhinoceros. It commemorates the first
on the edge of the Tagus River in 1514 in the rhino brought to Portugal in 1513 from India.
same architectural style as the Jeronimos Look closely to find it, especially because of
Monastery. The five-story-tall tower has six- its missing horn.
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