Category: lisbon’s neighborhoods

  • Graça

    The Graça neighborhood is one of the oldest and most historic in Lisbon. Its history dates back to the 13th century, when the Moors still occupied the city. The region was already under Christian rule since the conquest of Lisbon in 1147, led by the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques. From the 16th century,…

  • Chiado, elegant Lisbon

    Facing the hill of the castle, placed symmetrically in relation to Baixa, is the sophisticated neighborhood of Chiado, elegant Lisbon. During the siege of Lisbon (1147), English, Scottish and Norman knights set up their camp at the west of the city, in the area we know today as Chiado. Already during the Christian rule, the…

  • Alfama, where Lisbon was born

    No one can say they know the capital of Portugal without getting lost in Alfama, where Lisbon was born. During the first millennium BC. the great civilizations of the Mediterranean (Greeks, Phoenicians, Carthaginians) established permanent occupation in Alfama (which was not yet called that) as a support base for their navigations between the Mediterranean and…

  • Baixa, the city of Pombal

    Baixa, the city of Pombal, is the flat area of Lisbon that starts at Squares of Rossio and Figueira to the north and extends south to Square of Commerce where the city opens onto Tagus river. Baixa, before the 18th century was a part of the city that had grown poorly, with crooked and narrow…