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Standing approximately one hundred metres offshore in the central Tagus estuary at the western Belem district of Lisbon, the Torre de Belem is one of the most internationally recognised individual monuments of the Portuguese capital and one of the principal surviving examples of the distinctive late Gothic Portuguese Manueline architectural style. The tower was completed in 1519 and originally served as a substantial military fortification guarding the western maritime approach to the central po...