The past is never far away in Portugal’s resurgent capital – Lisbon embraced shabby chic long before it became fashionable.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.This year is a significant anniversary in Portuguese history: it is 50 years since the Carnation Revolution ended a four-decade dictatorship established by António Salazar. With it, democracy came to Portugal, paving the way for the country’s 1986 entry into the European Economic Community.
Thought to have been founded as a trading port city in 1200BC, Lisbon predates Rome. Like Paris, it is also described as the city of light. And it is soon set to tie with Córdoba, Spain, as the city with the most World Heritage Site listings. Its latest, flagged as “tentative”, is for the entire downtown and its “global legacy” – in particular, its medieval sections, 15th-century Age of Discovery ruins, and the extensive renovations that followed a 1755 earthquake.
That spirit of fado is everywhere in Lisbon, its pretty peeling paint and artfully deteriorating facades. The city was shabby chic before it was trendy and will be long after. Perhaps for tourists, as with fado, the city is not meant to be seen so much as felt. That might be why after multiple trips to Lisbon, I still don’t have a list of its essential sights.
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