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Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon's museums, which number more than 60 if you count even the tiniest of them, let you bathe in Portugal's history and culture. Some lie along the quays of the lagoon-like Tagus estuary, others scatter the city's hilly neighbourhoods.

History-minded visitors will, at some stage, find themselves at the water's edge in Belém, the perfect spot to take the pulse of the Age of Discovery, a time when Portugal shaped the world. It was from here that the caravels set sail, and

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