Bronze Pessoa
Sit at his A Brasileira table.
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Bairro Alto at night is taverns by nature — but its alternatives adjoin: Chiado's restaurants and rooftops, the Cais do Sodré bank and Time Out's tables to midnight, and fado evenings as full dinners without a drinking mood. The lanes themselves before nine make a lovely family walk, unrowdy.
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The twins Bairro Alto and Chiado are western Lisbon's two faces: Chiado the elegance — the writers' cafés (A Brasileira with Pessoa seated in bronze at its table), the world's oldest working bookshop (Bertrand, 1732), theatres and opera — and Bairro Alto above it, a 16th-century chessboard of lanes waking at dusk into taverns, restaurants and fado until dawn. Their upper gate is the Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara: a two-level garden terrace facing the castle — the whole eastern city as a picture, with an azulejo panel naming the landmarks — reached by the venerable yellow Glória funicular from Restauradores or the Chiado climb. Between them stands plain-faced São Roque: its interior among Europe's richest in gold — and the St. John chapel was built in Rome of precious stones then shipped whole (Europe's costliest chapel of its day). Live both quarters on foot: this is Lisbon's social square, morning to night.
Sit at his A Brasileira table.
Castle and eastern city on two garden levels.
The venerable yellow climbing since 1885.
Europe's richest interior behind its poorest face.
Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, 1250-237 Lisbon