Here, the port of Lisbon is showed as a fundamental point of inter-oceanic relationship, “shelter from all quarters in almost all year, except in five or six days, which is the annual measure of bad southeastern weather”, according to Baldaque da Silva. Stands out the improvements made in the modernization of the port of Lisbon in its river, maritime, and land aspects.

An important port of call, of departure and destination for the whole world or simply between the two banks of the Tagus River, where commercial exchanges take place, gradually becoming a place of leisure and visit.