Santa Justa Lift in Lisbon

You're standing at the Santa Justa Lift, at the end of Rua de Santa Justa in the heart of Lisbon's Baixa. Look up. That's an iron tower forty-five metres tall, seven storeys high, covered in Neo-Gothic decoration. Around 1900, iron was still a new building material, and a lift was the very symbol of a modern age. This tower shows how proud the city was of that new era.