(FILES) The statue of Dom Jose I is pictured at Comercio square as tourists walk past in downtown Lisbon, on August 16, 2023. Foreign tourists flocked to Portugal in record numbers in 2023 welcoming 26.5 million visitors -- a 19.2 percent jump compared to the year before, the country's National Statistics Institute said on July 8, 2024. (Photo by Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)