3D print the Vasco da Gama Tower
A free, printable model of the Vasco da Gama Tower and the surrounding streets and buildings of Lisbon's Parque das Nações, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Vasco da Gama Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 160 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 44 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
160 m of the Vasco da Gama Tower, 44 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Open sail and slim mast
The model's open sail is a lattice of slender braces around a thin mast and round observation pod. Full detail keeps those members; Print friendly thickens them, and a larger print or 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers preserve the open bays.
- Round pod and summit pole
A circular viewing drum, shallow domed roof and fine summit pole sit at the top. Print slowly with strong cooling for the pole and mast, and check the thin stays at the chosen scale.
- One piece with the ground
The Vasco da Gama Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Vasco da Gama Tower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Vasco da Gama Tower
The Vasco da Gama Tower is a lattice tower and skyscraper 160 meters (520 ft) tall in Parque das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal. It stands beside the Tagus river on its northern bank, and its name honors Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer who, in 1498, became the first person to chart a maritime route linking Europe with India. The tower itself is Lisbon's tallest structure.
It dates from 1998 and was made for Expo '98, the World's Fair. Its base contained a three-story structure used as the European Union Pavilion, and while the tower was open it was the tallest structure in Portugal accessible to the public, excluding bridges. The observation deck and restaurant closed in October 2004, and the base came down between July and September 2007 to make way for the five-star Myriad hotel, opened in 2012.
Leonor Janeiro, Nick Jacobs and SOM designed the tower, and the engineering company Martifer assembled the structure. The design draws on a caravel and its sail, which the tower echoes with a vertical mast and a tubular metal sail. A 120-meter (390 ft) platform forms a crow's nest for the rotating restaurant and viewing area.
About this model
The Vasco da Gama Tower is one of more than 4,900 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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