When I visited Lisbon last year, I dedicated a post to all the wonderful street art I came across, and this year I’m doing the same. I’ve gathered quite a lot of photos over the past few months, so take a look after the break!
As I promised on 
Feira da ladra, or the ‘thieves market’, is a huge flea market that is held every tuesday and saturday at Campo de Santa Clara in Lisbon. Rumor has it that if you get robbed in the city, you can find your stolen goods here and buy them back. There’s a lot of junk here, but you can also find nice bags, clothing, jewelry, furniture and other vintage treasures. Oh, and this also where I go to find cheap batteries!
Next to the market, you also find little shops here, selling gorgeous old books (like the Jules Verne series, I’m tempted to get one just because they are so beautiful, even though my portuguese is not good enough to be able to actually read them), leather backpacks and contemporary portuguese design. (By the way, you’ve already seen this market on the blog: photo two and three in this post.)
I’m spending this week at home with my parents and sister, to celebrate christmas with my family, catch up with my friends and do some studying (unfortunately). Being away from Lisbon, even if only for a few days, I already miss it! That’s going to be though when I have to get home in february to finish my semester in Belgium… Anyway, like I already told you many times, I still have tons of photos to show you of my favorite city. I thought I’d start with these analog photos, taken with an old nikon reflex camera that my grandparents gave me before I left. This black and white film was actually still in there from when they used it! You’ve already seen some of the photos I took with it in my post about the manifestations, but here’s the rest of them. The quality is not that good since I didn’t have a scanner in Lisbon (I took photos of the photos – inception!), but I still like them very much.
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Tapada das necessidades is where during september outjazz took place. I’ve showed you this park when it was filled with people, music and a wonderful atmosphere, but when there’s no festival going on, it’s a place-to-be as well. In some places you feel like you’re in a jungle, and then there’s that old greenhouse and other abandoned buildings waiting for you to be discovered.
Whenever you’re on a miradouro (a viewpoint) in Lisbon and you look across the river, there’s Jesus staring right back at you. So together with a friend, I went on a little adventure to ‘the other side’ of Lisbon. Instead of taking the ‘normal’ road through the city up to the statue, we opted for a little bit more exploring so we walked along the river and later ventured through some abandoned buildings to get up the hill. We left a little bit too late and didn’t bring any flashlights, so it became a little bit more adventurous than we aimed for, but we made it to Cristo Rei right when they were closing, and the sweet nun let us in anyway, so we got a private nighttime view.
Chapito is another one of those places where you have to go if you’re ever in Lisbon. This circus school also houses a restaurant, including a terrace with a wonderful view and a bar where regularly a band plays on a former swimming pool which is transformed into a stage. Every sunday you can come here for live african music and in my experience, it’s always good!
One of the things I was really looking forward to when my best friend came to see me in Lisbon, was paying a visit to the CCB, or the Centro Cultural de Belém. We both love visiting museums of modern art (the fact that we spent all our money on museums when we were in Vienna says enough) so this was a must-do during her stay. The CCB was one of the most fun museums we’ve visited together: one of the artworks included a sandpit, parrots, a tent and required bare feet, while another one existed out of a room with mattresses on the floor, rock’n’roll music and projections all over. I’ll warn you right now for the photo overload, but I just couldn’t resist showing you all the wonderful art this museum has on display! Oh – and they get two thumbs up for their creative use of signage!
The former convent, Convento da Ordem do Carmo, and it’s church were severely damaged during the earthquake in Lisbon in 1755. Until this day, the ruins of the Igreja do Carmo, are the biggest proof of the earthquake. Nowadays, it’s an archeological museum which you can visit for only €2,50 if you’re a student. In my opinion, you don’t have to go there to see the ‘archeological treasures’, but just to enjoy these breathtaking ruins.
My best friends’ visit happened to coincide with Open House Lisboa, an event where you can take a tour in several buildings in Lisbon. As we’re both architects, we couldn’t let this opportunity pass by. There was just one tiny problem: we expected it to be similar to ‘dag van de architectuur’ in Flanders (you can see some photos of last year’s edition here), where you’re free to visit any building at any time. So we didn’t subscribe in advance to see any buildings, with the result that we just explored a few buildings from the outside. So here’s the first batch of photos, from the champalimaud centre for the unknown, which is a research centre for neurosciences and oncology.
Every tuesday, the residents of an appartment building somewhere in Lisbon open their doors to everyone who’s interested. You go through the building and take the fire escape to the roof of the building. Here you’ll have an amazing view over the city, get a vegetarian meal for only 3 euros, meet wonderful people and watch an interesting movie. In short, you’ll have a great evening! I’m sorry for the bad quality of these photos by the way, they could’ve been so much better if I wouldn’t have slipped on one of Lisbon’s slippery sidewalks when it was raining (and thus even more slippery!), as I broke my 50 mm lens when I fell… Lisbon gives and takes I guess!
It took me two weeks before I finally had time to spend a day at the beach, but when I finally found an appartment and got settled, I enjoyed it even more. With a few friends, we spent an entire day at praia guincho, one of the more beautiful beaches near Lisboa. Despite the cold when it was getting later, we stayed there until sunset. So worth it!
Last Sunday, I made a trip to LX factory, an old industrial site which is now a creative island. Here you can find wonderful shops, nice restaurants and bars, architects, fashion designers, advertising agencies, artists, photographers and so on. And on top of that, each sunday the LX market takes place, where you can find both vintage and new treasures.
I’m having such wonderful times here. Enjoying outjazz on friday nights with amazing jazz bands, looking out over the river Tejo at the miradouro de Santa Catarina, close to the hostel where I stayed for almost two weeks and met so many lovely people, and close to my new home, that I’m so happy with. Dancing to the great music at outjazz on sunday’s, meeting even more lovely people. Life in Lisbon couldn’t be any better.
In my last post about my trip to Lisboa, I want to give you one last must-go! While strolling through the city, we found this adorable bar, LOSTin, with a spectacular view over Lisboa. If you ever visit this city, you defintely have to spend some time here! You can find it at Rua D.Pedro V, 56, or check out their website (as soon as it’s online) here.
Behind every corner in Lisbon, there’s a piece of art. Whether it be graffiti, beautiful paintings or photos of the old inhabitants of the little street you’re exploring.
One day of our stay in Lisbon, was spent at the Expo Park. In 1998, the world exposition was held in Lisbon, with the theme ‘The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future’. Nowadays you can walk through the park, take a look at the pavilion of Portugal by Alvaro Siza (pictured above, but if you take a look here, you might get abetter idea of how impressing this building is), the trainstation by Calatrava, enjoy the ‘vulcanic’ fountains and so on. We had a great time and there were lots of gorgeous things to see, so expect a picture-heavy post!
I’ve already showed you streetviews of Lisbon, and the colorful ‘azulejos’ you find on almost every house. This time I’m showing you clear views on Lisbon’s facades. I’ve expressed my love for this city before, but I will again today! All the houses are so bright and colorful, and there are beautiful and funny details to be found at every house: pretty lanterns, bird cages next to the window with fake or real birds, colorful laundry drying outside the windows or beautiful plants bringing nature to the city.
Despite always carrying my DSLR camera with me, I also brought a disposable camera with me to Lisbon. Here are my favourite shots of the trip!
Perhaps you noticed it already in one of my previous posts about our trip to Lisbon (1, 2, 3), but almost every house in this Portugese city is covered in colorful tiles. In Portugal, they are called ‘azulejos’ and they are very typical for this country, as production started in the 16th century and continues until today. I photographed all my favourite patterns, so I thought, why not combine them in one post and show these little details that make this city so beautiful.
I’ve finally gone through all my pictures of my trip to Lisbon, and I present you here the first batch! Today I’m showing you some photos of which I hope they’ll give you an impression of what a lovely city Lisbon is and how many beautiful and colorful streets you come across when taking a walk through the city.
This is one of my favourite photos of my trip to Lisbon: an old man, waiting for the fish to bite (his fishing rods are outside of the view), who found that one spot of shadow on the sunny quay.
PS. Now we’re talking about my photos of Lisbon: I’ve finally sorted all of them out and you can expect many posts about my trip soon!
(picture by my father)
One of the many places you must certainly visit when staying in Lisbon is the castelo de São Jorge. The ruins of this castle offer an amazing view over the city and taking a walk through the castle while running into the many peacocks that enjoy it’s garden is a great way to spend a sunny afternoon.
And I’m back! I fell head over heels in love with Lisbon, it’s such a beautiful city, with it ‘s small streets, cute houses, adorable trams and graffiti overload. Expect a lot of photos (I’ve taken about 500 pictures) in the days to come! Here’s the first batch, taken on our first walk in the city.