A spokesperson for Infrastructure Portugal did not know when the statue would be fixed. Rossio station is on Lisbon’s central Rossio Square and was completed in 1890.

According to Death and Taxes, a 24-year-old young man tried to take a selfie with a statue at Rossio Station in Lisbon, Portugal. Because not any old picture of this statue would do, he tried to ...

A man tried to climb up on a statue at Lisbon's Rossio train station for a picture, causing the figure of King Sebastian to fall and shatter. The national monument was more than 120 years old.

In the latest edition of "Just ask someone to take your picture!", an attempted selfie led to the destruction of a 126-year-old statue in Lisbon, Portugal.

A man tried to climb up on a statue at Lisbon's Rossio train station for a picture, causing the figure of King Sebastian to fall and shatter. The national monument was more than 120 years old.

A man tried to climb up on a statue at Lisbon's Rossio train station for a picture, causing the figure of King Sebastian to fall and shatter. The national monument was more than 120 years old.

With this legend in mind, a number of people attempted to impersonate the king in the years that followed. Ruth MacKay writes about one such case in her 2012 book, The Baker Who Pretended to be King ...