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17th century church at Carcavelos

What were they thinking when they restored the building? :-)

Palace Of The Counts Of Calheta

Belém, Lisbon

This 17th century building houses the Museum of Tropical Research which you can not visit due to restoration works. Only a few rooms are open for exhibitions.

European Day Of Action Against Austerity

Photo taken on the September 15 huge protest in Lisbon

 

A large-scale mobilisation across Europe is taking place today to alert the European leaders that the time for a change in course has already come. The day will take various forms in more than 20 countries: from simultaneous strikes through demonstrations to open forums and political and media action.
In Portugal and Spain a 24 hour general strike is in progress, the first Iberian strike in History.

Feeding Frenzy

Morais Park at Parede

Palace Of Belém

Official residence of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Lisbon

 

Actually this place looks very different today because of security measures in order not to let the crowd of protesters get near the palace: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the "Queen of Austerity", is having a meeting with the President.

Landeau Chocolate

"The best chocolate cake in town" (Time Out magazine)

LXFactory, Lisbon

 

In August I was invited to do a photo shooting for the 'taste' section of ItsyBitsy, a triannual kiddies magazine.

Click here, the magazine is now online and it's really cool.

 

Decay (LXXII)

 

Former post office building at Monte Estoril

Gare Do Oriente

 

Oriente train and subway station, Lisbon

Obelisk Pedestal

Lisbon Zoo

Tropical Botanical Garden

Belém, Lisbon

Crash

 

Alcântara, Lisbon

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Untitled

Street lamp at Algés

Indonesian Divinity

Orient Museum, Lisbon

Simplicity

 

Church at the Cascais Citadel (Fort of Our Lady of Light)

CDP November Theme Day: 'The Water's Edge'

Carcavelos Beach is flat except when the wild ocean decides to reshape it

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"The Silence Of My Sounds"

 

Cecília Melo e Castro autographs a copy of her new book while actor João Vasco reads some of her poems at the Cascais Experimental Theatre

Decay (LXXI)

 

Quinta das Laranjeiras, Lisbon

Typically Portuguese

Old house at Cascais

The Fox And The Stork

Ceramic work distortion of Aesop's fable by Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905) on display at the gardens of the City Museum (Pimenta Palace), Lisbon

Detail

Monument to the Discoveries (1960), Lisbon

(Wider view here)

Little Old Fountain

Downtown Oeiras Park

Great White Pelican

Second-largest species at the Lisbon Zoo

Oriental Inspiration

Monserrate Palace, Sintra

Red

LXFactory, Lisbon

 

An abandoned industrial site is now a creative island, being the stage for a diverse set of happenings
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Raindrops

 

Poinsettia: new leaves will grow red soon

 

This is how it looked like last Christmas

 

Tram #28

 

Alfama district, Lisbon

Luis Bívar's Work

 

Art gallery at the Cascais Citadel

Decay (LXX)

 

Alley at Carcavelos

Fishing Harbour Facilities

Cascais Bay

Twins

Manuel de Brito Art Center, Anjos Palace (19th century), Algés

Canned Food Goes Gourmet

Can the Can Café, Lisbon

"Culture Is Resistance"

Three more different protest events against new cuts and more taxes - which will be impossible to pay! - announced by this government for 2013 took place in Lisbon yesterday (as well as in other cities from north to south). People simply can't take any more austerity, this country's economy will be ruined soon.
This time I decided to support culture as it has never been so neglected as it is now. I took this shot when the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra was performing. Writers, poets, actors, movie directors, dancers, musicians, singers, bands have raised their voices on this stage.

 

Culture is the people's soul
Fernando Pessoa
 

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By the way,
Exactly when an economic war is going on in the Euro zone and just one country is in command, when the EU shows total incapacity for dealing with the crisis, when some governments are fighting their own people, the Swedish Academy decided to award the European Union with the Nobel Peace Prize.
No comments.

 

(Web image)

P.S.  It's Norway that gives out the Peace Prize and Sweden gives out the other Nobel Prizes. Thank you, Ladyfi.

Art Nouveau

A store front conversion of a 18th century building took place in 1908 when Animatógrafo do Rossio opened doors for the Lisboners to watch movies.

A century later the sex business controls the place and peep shows is all you can watch there now.

Extravaganza

Passion Fruit bloom on someone's yard at Oeiras

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Filming A Protest March In Lisbon

 

Notice the 'staples' used on new buildings immediatly after the 1755 Great Earthquake

St. Amaro

Old chapel's small altar at downtown Oeiras

Red Plastic Invasion

Carcavelos Beach

Queen Mary II National Theatre

 

Rossio Square, Lisbon
 

The theatre was built on the site of the old Estaus Palace(*) between 1842 and 1846. A fire would partially destroy the building in 1964 and it took fourteen years to reopen doors.
 

(*)built around 1450, it became the seat of the Inquisition in the 16th century; the palace survived the 1755 Great Earthquake but it was destroyed by a fire in 1836

The Roman Galleries

The galleries found underneath Rua da Prata (Silver Street) in downtown Lisbon are estimated to have been built in the 1st century AD, during the peak of the Roman Empire. Over the centuries, the Roman structures on the surface crumbled or were replaced by new buildings. However, newer buildings were continuously constructed on the pre-existing Roman foundations.

This cryptoporticus was discovered after the 1755 Great Earthquake.

Public access is only possible 3 days a year after pumping out all the water accumulated over the entire year and the installation of lights (video). Water pumps continue work until the monument is once again closed to the public due to the significant rate of water seepage.

#5

 

Downtown Oeiras

CDP October Theme Day: Silhouette

Ceramic cat by Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905) at the gardens with the same name.

City Museum (Pimenta Palace), Lisbon

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