According to local police, the man’s weight brought the statue tumbling when he tried to climb it with a camera in hand. The incident took place on May 3 in downtown Lisbon’s Rossio Station.

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.

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.

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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 ...