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These are few more immediately likeable capitals than LISBON (Lisboa). A lively and varied place it remains in some ways curiously provincial rooted as much in the 1920s as the 2000’s. Pre-World War I wooden trams clank up outrageous gradients past mosaic pavements and Art Nouveau cafés and the medieval village-like quarter of Alfama which hangs below the city's São Jorge castle. Modern Lisbon with a population of just over 3 million has kept an easy-going human pace and scale with little of the underlying violence of most cities and ports of its size. It also boasts a vibrant cosmopolitan identity with large communities of ex-colony Brazilians Africans (from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde) and Asians (from Macao, Goa and East Timor). Many came over to work on two major urban development projects in the Nineties: the preparations for the European City of Culture in 1994 and the Expo 98. Lisbon invested heavily in these ventures and the rejuvenation of the city with new road, hotel, and metro and bridge schemes. Disused dockland has been reclaimed and communication links improved with several showcase pieces of architecture and engineering like Santiago Calatrava's impressive Gare de Oriente and his sleek fourteen kilometer-long Vasco de Gama Bridge which links Lisbon airport to a network of national motorways. The focus is still firmly on the future with Portugal's successful bid to stage the European Football Championship in 2004, an event which will again turn the world's attention on the Portuguese capital.
The Great Earthquake of 1755 (followed by a tidal wave and fire) destroyed most of the city's big buildings and twenty years of frantic reconstruction led to many impressive new palaces and churches and the street grid pattern spanning the seven hills of Lisbon. Several buildings from Portugal's golden age survived the quake - notably the Torre de Belém, the Castelo de São Jorge and the Monastery of Jerónimos at Belém. Many of the city's more modern sites also demand attention: the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian a museum and cultural complex with superb collections of ancient and modern art and the futuristic Oceanarium at the Parque das Nações the largest of its kind in Europe. Half an hour south of Lisbon dunes stretch along the Costa da Caparica and twenty kilometers north you'll pass the coastal resorts of Estoril and Cascais before reaching the lush wooded heights and royal palaces of Sintra and the monastery of Mafra one of the most extraordinary buildings in the country.
The City
The lower town - the Baixa - is very much the heart of the capital housing many of the country's administrative departments, banks and business offices. Europe's first great example of neoclassical design and urban planning, it remains an imposing quarter of rod-straight streets, cobbled underfoot and either streaming with traffic or turned over to pedestrians, street performers and pavement artists. Many of the streets in the Baixa grid maintain their crafts and businesses as devised by the autocratic Marquês de Pombal in his post-earthquake reconstruction: Rua da Prata (Silversmiths' Street), Rua dos Sapateiros (Cobblers' Street) and Rua do Ouro (Goldsmiths' Street) are all cases in point. Architecturally, the most interesting places in the Baixa are the squares - the Rossío and Praça do Comércio - and on the periphery the lanes leading east to the cathedral and west up towards Bairro Alto. This last area known as Chiado suffered much damage from a fire that swept across the Baixa in August 1988 but has been elegantly rebuilt by Portugal's premier architect Àlvaro Siza and remain the city's most affluent quarter focused on the fashionable shops and the beautiful old tearooms of the Rua Garrett. |
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