check out 1935. Los primeros turistas de Lisboa 1935. lisbon’s first tourists © Herbert Hoffmann/ullstein bild via Getty Images En los años 30, visitar Lisboa y su Monasterio de los Jerónimos de Belém era casi un hecho exótico. Portugal vivía una dictadura, estaba cerrada al turismo, pero los visitantes que acudían, quedaban absortos antes tal belleza. // In the 1930s, visiting Lisbon and its Jerónimos de Belém Monastery was seen as almost exotic. Portugal was living under a dictatorship and was closed to tourism, but any visitors who came were spellbound in the face of such beauty.