"Remembering Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator; he arrived in Cochin ...where he died and was first buried". On Tuesday, it will be 500 years since the man who discovered the sea route to India ...

The waterfront Belém is a historic neighborhood that houses some of Lisbon's ... Belém include Vasco da Gama, who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India, and Ferdinand ...

Lisbon is a hilly place ... I who commissioned the monastery's construction to celebrate Vasco da Gama's seafaring voyage to India). Add the Torre de Belém (a Manueline-style defensive post ...