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Start by taking the Santa Justa Elevator (1) up to the ruins of the Carmo Convent (2),
destroyed in the 1755 earthquake. This is the only remaining example of early gothic
architecture in Lisbon. Walk up Rua da Trindade, where you can see the impressive
façade of the Trindade Theatre (3), then continue down the road to visit the two
churches, Igreja do Loreto (4) and Igreja da Encarnação (5). Go down Rua Garrett to
the church called Igreja dos Mártires (6) , then go by Lisbon’s opera house, the São
Carlos Theatre (7), and visit the Chiado Museum (8), in Rua Serpa Pinto. Go down the
winding Calçada do Ferragial that takes you to the 17th cent. Corpo Santo Church
(9) then turn left onto Rua do Arsenal, leading to Praça do Município (10), and the
Lisbon Town Hall, built in 1774. Two blocks east lies one of Europe’s outstanding city
squares, the 18th cent. Praça do Comércio (11). From the SE corner of the square,
in front of the ferry terminal (12), where you can take a river tour, go east to the
Campo das Cebolas, where the odd Casa dos Bicos (13) stands. Now go back along
Rua da Alfândega, where you’ll find the ornate Manueline façade of the church of
Nossa Senhora da Conceição (14). Stop off for lunch, or a ‘bica’, a little cup of aromatic
black coffee, in the 200 year old Café Martinho d’Arcada, a favourite haunt of the
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poet Fernando Pessoa, then pass under the great neo-classical archway called Arco
da Vitória (15), where the pedestrian mall, Rua Augusta (16) begins, and take in the
cosmopolitan buzz of one of Lisbon’s main shopping hubs. At the top is Praça D.
Pedro IV, the square known to Lisboners as Rossio. Turn right off the NE corner of
the square to the church of S. Domingos (17), founded in 1241, and reconstructed
after the 1755 earthquake. Turn back to where Portugal’s National Theatre, the neoclassical
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (18), built 1842, stands at the north end of Rossio.
From here, Rua das Portas de Santo Antão takes you to the Palácio da Independência
(19) and Praça dos Restauradores (20). On the opposite side of this square are the
Palácio Foz (21), the neo-Manueline Rossio railway station, and the Glória Funicular
(22), which takes you up to the Bairro Alto, with its narrow streets and bohemian
nightlife. As an alternative to the funicular, go back down through Rossio (23) and
walk up Rua do Carmo and Rua Garrett, the streets that make up the earth of Chiado.
An old quarter dear to Lisboners, the Chiado (24) suffered a serious fire in 1988 and
has now been reconstructed following a master plan drawn up by leading Portuguese
architect, Álvaro Siza Vieira.
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