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| March and rally against austerity |
24-05-2013 –
26-05-2013
Now I know
where all the people from the rural areas have gone – they all seem to live by
the river Tagus in Lisbon and its satellite towns. And this is where the
tourists come.
I am
ignoring the Algarve for now.
Lisbon is
big and full. As most cities it has a bubble in the middle where most local
people rarely visit. Patrick and I explored the bubble. We looked at buildings
such as the Torre de Belem; rode on trams, buses, the metro trains and the
Elevador de Santa Justa; we visited Art galleries – the Museu Nacional de Arte
Antiga and the excellent Museo Coleccao Berardo in Belem; we got involved in an
anti-austerity rally and march outside the President’s residence, the Palacio
de Belem; we enjoyed an evening in a Fado restaurant in the Alfama district; we
tried to find Henry Fielding’s gravestone but the cemetery was closed, we sat
in the Jardim de Estrela and listened to the band playing as people danced in
the park.
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| Lisboa tram |
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| Monument to the Discoveries - Padrao dos Descobrimentos |
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| Torre de Belem |
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