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Lisbon's Baixa: from Terreiro do Paço to the Rossio
The question about Pedro IV and Maximilian examines one of the explanations repeated beside the Rossio statue.
Legends and Myths with a Date in Lisbon: audio walks
How long has each legend been told, and what lies underneath it?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Lisbon's tales attach themselves to a neighbourhood, a church or a viewpoint. In these walks, a legend has a setting and a history: when it began to be told matters, as does its relationship to events. You can follow the mystery while recognising the distance between a tradition and what the evidence supports.
In “Lisbon's Baixa”: The question about Pedro IV and Maximilian examines one of the explanations repeated beside the Rossio statue.
In “Belém”: The doubtful tomb and the old man on the shore let you compare traditions, literature and remembrance of Portugal's past.
In “Chiado and Bairro Alto”: The name of Chiado and the stories surrounding its poets let you ask how the versions repeated by a city take shape.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Lisbon. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Alfama, the Sé and the Castle: the Conquest of 1147 and its Legends
Eleven stops uphill, from St Anthony's to the castle: what a crusader saw at the siege of 1147, two bishops killed in the same cathedral, Nero on a hillside, Ulysses as a legendary founder, and the gate that had a name before it had a hero.
Belém: the Jerónimos, the Padrão and the hidden side of empire
The doubtful tomb and the old man on the shore let you compare traditions, literature and remembrance of Portugal's past.
Chiado and Bairro Alto: 25 April, the Fire and Pessoa
The name of Chiado and the stories surrounding its poets let you ask how the versions repeated by a city take shape.
From the Rossio to the Mouraria: the Inquisition, 1506 and fado
The king who would return and stories about the birth of fado approach different ways of making a Lisbon legend.
Lisbon, before you go
Light over the Tagus, patterned pavements and streets that change gradient without warning. Lisbon rewards a mixture of walking, shade and a pause to look at the river.
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