"(...) to set foot on one's country as a foreign land".

According to Gilbert K. Chesterton "the whole object of travel is not to set foot on a foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land".

That's what I have been doing since 2007. Here are some carved figures which have touched me for very different reasons.

Henry the Navigator holding a small caravel at the prow of the caravel shaped monument to the Discoveries evoquing the maritime expansion.

The tomb (a detail) of Inês de Castro in the Monastery of Alcobaça - the posthumously exhumed and declared lawful wife of King D. Pedro I of Portugal.

Manueline entrance of the Convent of Christ's Church in Tomar (detail).

The Triton, simbolyzing the creation of the world - Pena National Palace, Sintra.