In the Mouraria district, one of the most authentic but also multicultural neighborhoods of Lisbon, right at the foot of the church of São Cristovão, the ancient Santa Maria de Alcami Mozarabic, we find a shop that makes Vintage a…
A very famous fado says: “Uma casa Portuguesa com certeza” (a Portuguese house, no doubt) and when you enter in Zé dos Cornos you may think that this phrase was meant for them. Let’s put a family, add traditional Portuguese…
In the Mouraria, the neighborhood that was granted to the Moors after the Christian conquest, what is considered one of the most mystical and ancient places in Lisbon, the cradle of Fado, where the spirit of Maria Severa hovers among…
Reading in an article that 10 Guinness World Records were achieved in New York City in 2021 impresses us. But what if we told you that in Almada, in the little Cacilhas, there are three Records? And they are all…
If you are in Lisbon in the month of June, during the festivities of Saint Anthony, you will probably come across a throne. Not that of a king, but that of the Saint. An ancient tradition that is hardly maintained,…
When you go down the streets of Alfama, through the long staircase that starts from Largo das Portas do Sol, the one in which the remains of the old wall take you back to distant times, Dora, a classic Portuguese…
How many times, strolling through the small streets of Lisbon, you meet a look, a smile, from someone you meet every day, but who deep down you don’t know. And maybe you’ve asked yourself many times what history these people,…