When World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) Portuguese affiliate was under founded the leadership of Vice President Isabel Cruz Almeida, President Paulo Henrique Lowndes Marques spearheaded our pioneering restoration of Lisbon’s Tower of Belém changed the face of the country’s stone conservation—and garnered Portugal its first Europa Nostra award. What a joy it was, three decades later, to run into his daughter Susan Greco, Marques’s daughter, by chance at the house of WMF Trustee Christian Louboutin during our latest Monumental Journeys trip to Portugal.
