https://www.portugalresident.com/pena-palace-the-triton-gateway/ Photograph taken by me in Sintra shows tge ornate sculpted Triton Gate at tge Pena Palace. The full description of this piece can be found on this website, written by Jay Costa ...Commissioned by Fernando II who was an avid painter and drawer and always carried a sketch book in his pocket. He was the one who envisioned the Triton Gate, an archway located on the Palace’s terrace. Mythologically speaking, in Ancient Greece, Triton was a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon himself. He is often depicted as a merman, with the upper body of a man and the bottom half of a fish, and he is accompanied by a conch shell which he would use as a trumpet either to calm or agitate the sea. It is said that Triton’s shell was so loud and crude that all beings believed it to be the roar of a hellish wild beast.

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