A vision of carefully planned, elegant streets, Lisbon’s historic city center greets you with an 18th-century ambiance attesting to its days of glory during the Age of Discovery. Tauck welcomes you to Portugal’s capital with experiences including a visit to Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, built in the 16th century with “pepper money” profits from the spice trade; tours of the Maritime Museum, chronicling the history of Portugal’s pioneering role in sea exploration, and the National Tile Museum, dedicated to the art and history of azulejos, those exquisite glazed ceramic tiles found throughout Portugal; and a Tauck Exclusive private tour and dinner in the Throne Room of the Palacio Nacional de Queluz (Palace of Queluz), a Rococo gem often called the “Portuguese Versailles.”