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Vasco da Gama Tower

Portugal

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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The Vasco da Gama Tower (Torre Vasco da Gama, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]) is a 160-metre (520 ft) lattice tower with skyscraper in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, the municipality of Lisbon, in Portugal. Built on the north bank of the Tagus river, it is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (the first person to chart the maritime route from Europe to India in 1498). The tower portion is the tallest structure in Lisbon.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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