[vc_row content_width=”full” equal_height=”” font_color=”dark” background_type=”image” background_img=”127507″ background_img_lazyload=”1″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ min_height=”825″][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
ROUTE: HERITAGE | SANDRA NOBRE STORYTELLER <\/i> | JOANA RAY ILLUSTRATOR<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ inline_style=”text-align: justify;” css=”.vc_custom_1560873602216{padding-right: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Lisbon does not parade at the window as I move, as if it made a night trip with the curtain closed. Between one stop and another, a beam of light, the amazement, a museum of different styles, large rooms, where architecture intersects with painting, sculpture and words. Every day I discover a new stop, a new artist, and, when I ascend to the surface, I am close to a cathedral, a museum, a church. All the guides suggest a ride on Tram 28, but a long-time friend introduced me to a poem that says: \u201cNo, I won\u2019t go that way! I only go where my own steps take me\u2026\u201d (Black Chant, Jos\u00e9 R\u00e9gio) and I made it my motto in the city, such as in life.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner content_placement=”default” width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Discovering Lisbon by following the different Tube lines is, in itself, a cultural experience. Meeting Siza Vieira, one of the greatest in world architecture, in Baixa-Chiado (blue line). Diving in the colourful world of the visual artist Jos\u00e9 de Guimar\u00e3es, in Carnide (blue line). Admiring the geometrical compositions that celebrate the couple Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva, reproduced in tiles, by another great artist of painting and ceramics, Manuel Cargaleiro, in Rato (yellow line). I follow the rushed steps of the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, drawn by the surrealist Ant\u00f3nio Dacosta and interpreted by Pedro Morais. I never get tired of the words of Almada Negreiros inscribed in Saldanha (red line): \u201cWhen I was born, all the sentences to save humanity had already been written, just one thing was lacking – to save humanity\u201d. LISBOA<\/span><\/span><\/strong> AROUND LISBON\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong> [vc_row content_width=”full” equal_height=”” font_color=”dark” background_type=”image” background_img=”127507″ background_img_lazyload=”1″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ min_height=”825″][vc_column][vc_column_text] PEEK THROUGH OTHER WINDOWS ROUTE: HERITAGE | SANDRA NOBRE STORYTELLER | JOANA RAY ILLUSTRATOR [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ inline_style=”text-align: justify;” css=”.vc_custom_1560873602216{padding-right: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Lisbon does not parade at the window as I move, as if it made a night trip with the curtain closed. Between…<\/p>\n
\nOn the surface, every man if for himself, among tuk-tuks with no rules, slow trams, illegally parked cars, erratic scooters. Better to take a cacilheiro boat and see the city at the pace of the Tagus, as if strumming the strings of a Portuguese guitar.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner content_placement=”default” width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”127511″ img_size=”full” full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”127515″ img_size=”full” full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Lisbon has poetry between the lines. In the narrow alleyways of historic quarters, with clothes hanging in the wind and elderly residents at the window. In all that the sight can reach, from viewpoints on the top of its seven hills to the architectural traces which circumvent the dome of the National Pantheon, home of the most illustrious Portuguese figures \u2013 from Lu\u00eds de Cam\u00f5es (poet immortalised by its work Os Lus\u00edadas) and Vasco da Gama (Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route to India) to Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues (the queen of fado) and Eus\u00e9bio (great footballer, nicknamed the \u201cBlack Panther\u201d) \u2013, or follow the modern curves by the river of MAAT-Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]From the historical heritage that recalls the 1755 earthquake, such as the Church of S\u00e3o Domingos, in Rossio Square, a living memory of the destruction, later marked by a fire in 1954, which painted it inside in black, or the ruins of the Convent of Carmo, which was the main Gothic church in the capital, now the Archaeological Museum of Carmo, a frequent stage for shows, to the natural heritage of the Botanical Garden, which includes the Museums of Natural History and of Science, which gathers more than 140 years of history and dedication to botanical research, or Estufa Fria, designed at the beginning of the 20th century to house plant species from all over the world, Lisbon cannot fit fully in a window. It takes many trips to discover it. No, I won\u2019t go that way! I sit down for a coffee with Fernando Pessoa, at Brasileira, while I discover his book Lisbon \u2013 What the Tourist Should See, another window ajar, waiting for curious looks and adventurous spirits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nOPEN THE CURTAIN\u2026
\nWHAT TO SEE?<\/h1>\n
\nMetropolitano de Lisboa<\/a>
\nFunda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian<\/a>
\nCentro Cultural de Bel\u00e9m<\/a>
\nCasa dos Bicos<\/a>
\nMuseu de Lisboa \u2013 Pal\u00e1cio Pimenta<\/a>
\nCastelo de S\u00e3o Jorge<\/a>
\nMosteiro dos Jer\u00f3nimos<\/a>
\nMuseu de Arte Antiga<\/a>
\nS\u00e9 Catedral de Lisboa<\/a>
\nBas\u00edlica da Estrela<\/a>
\nReservat\u00f3rio da M\u00e3e d\u2019 \u00c1gua das Amoreiras<\/a>
\nMiradouro do Arco da Rua Augusta<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPal\u00e1cio Marqu\u00eas de Pombal (Oeiras)<\/a>
\nCasa das Hist\u00f3rias Paula Rego (Cascais)<\/a>
\nQuinta da Regaleira (Sintra)<\/a>
\nParque e Pal\u00e1cio de Queluz (Queluz)<\/a>
\nParque e Pal\u00e1cio da Pena (Sintra)<\/a>
\nParque e Pal\u00e1cio da Vila (Sintra)<\/a>
\nParque e Pal\u00e1cio da Monserrate (Sintra)<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"