Chapter 255 Autumn of 1484 - Conversations among Navigators

August 1484, Capital of the Kingdom of Portugal, the ancient yet newly splendid City of Seven Hills, Lisbon.

In this era, Lisbon was an undeniable European metropolis. It was the capital of a kingdom with fifteen hundred thousand subjects, housing over seventy thousand permanent residents and thousands of foreign merchants and travelers. The ancient Sintra Palace was situated upon the Sintra Mountains to the north of the city; it was the true power center of the kingdom, home to an ambitious and vigorous king.