It isn’t a European city without fountains and statues and cobblestones:

(Note: I do not recommend walking across this plaza after two glasses of wine)

Impressive architecture:

And, of course, a castle:

Lisbon can be a challenging city to navigate.  The streets are twisty with long names, and they change names often.  Plus, the street signs/names are carved in stone and mounted on the sides of buildings, often the worse for wear:

I had fun getting lost and stumbling across cool stuff I wasn’t even looking for like vintage neon signs:

Hidden alleys:

And sweeping city views:

I’ll share my very favorite accidental find in a future post.

MM