{"id":278433,"date":"2026-07-06T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowcabtttours.pt\/?p=278433"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:02:24","slug":"cristo-rei-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowcabtttours.pt\/de\/blog\/cristo-rei-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristo Rei, Lissabon: Die Statue, an deren Bau portugiesische Kinder mitgeholfen haben. Reisef\u00fchrer, Geschichte"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/strong> F\u00e1bio Mendes<\/a> \u00b7 Founder & Director, Yellow Cab TT Tours<\/div>\n
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Every visitor to Lisbon<\/a> eventually sees Cristo Rei \u2014 arms open, standing on the south bank of the Tagus, visible from half the city’s miradouros. Almost none of them go there. It’s a photo taken from across the river, filed under “things that look good in the background,” and left at that.<\/p>\n

That’s a shame, because the statue itself is only the last chapter of a much longer story. Before construction ever started, Portuguese schoolchildren spent nearly two decades saving coins for it. Before that, a cardinal came home from Rio de Janeiro with an idea, and an entire country’s bishops made a wartime promise that, decades later, they kept in concrete and stone.<\/p>\n

We’re one of the operators whose standard Lisbon day<\/a> actually drives across the bridge to get here \u2014 it’s part of the same crossing that lets us reach the statue itself, not just admire it from the north bank. So we know this place beyond the postcard version.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full history, the numbers most guides to this statue get wrong, and what it actually costs to go up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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