Tourists troop through on foot, on buses, or pour out of trams.
In 1415, the first overseas expedition left Restelo beach on the way to conquer Ceuta in Morocco. In March 1493, Christopher Colombus stopped in on his way back to Spain after discovering the Americas and, in 1497, Vasco da Gama departed with a fleet of caravels to discover a maritime route to India. Bus 27, 29. The church was designed by Italian architect Giovanni Carlo Bibienna, who died a few months after construction began, and took more than two decades to complete. More recently, restoration work has been carried out to repair damage from a lightning strike in 1985.