Get to know some beaches in the Greater Lisbon area to enjoy the hottest days and find out which beach is yours! This is the year when summer festivals and events return to Lisbon.
We missed them a lot and now more than ever it's time to sing, dance, vibrate and fall in love with the show. From music, cinema, art and opera, Lisbon has many options of events that will fill your summer with good memories and that are the perfect reason to enjoy and discover the city.
Share Tweet. The silence of the day in the narrow streets, cut only by one or another phrase that could be heard in a Portuguese village, contrasts with the movement and the music of the nights. Popular in its origin, at the gates of a cosmopolitan Lisbon, between Chiado and downtown, Bairro Alto emerged, first with fishermen, then with Jesuit priests, nobles, craftsmen and even with a certain bohemia resulting from fado and prostitution.
This was also the neighborhood that served as a headquarters for some of the great Portuguese newspapers. And this mixture contaminated the spirit of the place, which has existed for years and lives marked by contrasts. It was a neighborhood that was born outside the city walls and became, centuries later, one of its most characteristic urban centers, surrounded by palaces, convents, churches and small squares, on a hill that survived almost without damage to the earthquake of It is a chain of alleys with small grocery stores, taverns, goldsmiths stores, exclusive gift shops; in Lisbon where clothes can still be seen hung out on the windows and balconies, as well as cages with birds on the facades and bougainvilleas on the walls of the houses; an open window can let out the sound of a guitar or the voice of a woman singing.
There are men smoking on the steps, with a slow look, contrasting with the rhythm and the hustle lived down the streetβ¦. A neighborhood full of stories There are also stories that deserve to be told; stories of many decades, still hidden. Bairro Alto represents the history of the journalism in Portugal: by typographies, at a time when journalists worked at home and only delivered the texts to be printed; by the newspaper offices that were being created; and by the daily life of the majority of journalists β so many restaurants and bars were chosen to be their second home, from the end of the working day until dawn.
