Lisbon will have another public elevator, this time to connect downtown to the castle hill, making life easier for the elderly and to those with mobility issues. It’s a long-discussed project and the new “Castle Elevator” (which is really a set of three) will soon open in a building on Rua dos Fanqueiros facing Rua [...]
Comercio Square will finally have a hotel. It will be a “pousada” and will occupy the building that was home to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to a police station in the northwestern corner of the square. According to the Pestana group which manages the Pousadas chain, the works will begin later this year [...]
The City Museum which is now in a palace in the Avenidas Novas district (Campo Grande) will be renamed Lisbon Museum and will be transferred to the western turret of Praça do Comércio. The first exhibition is expected to open as early as this summer and the new museum will occupy three levels of the [...]
TIGER The last few weeks of 2012 brought new businesses to the Baixa (downtown) district. The most popular from the very first day has been the Tiger store, a Danish retailer of housewares at affordable prices. On number 181 of Rua da Prata is fun Scandinavian design spread over two floors, and with everything for [...]
The InterContinental group has reconfirmed the opening of a hotel in Lisbon under its Indigo brand. It will be a boutique hotel in a former convent downtown and the scheduled date is 2014. The same group also owns the Holiday Inn brand and plans one for Avenida da Liberdade and a Holiday Inn Express in [...]
The first Amorino ice cream shop in Portugal has just opened in Lisbon’s Rua Augusta. Created in 2002, this is a brand of high-quality natural and organic ice creams, free of artificial flavors or colorings. The new home in Lisbon features the same décor of all the others of the brand which are mostly concentrated [...]
The innovative brand of contemporary cork skin design Pelcor has opened a new store offering two new collections. It’s located on Rua das Pedras Negras, number 28, and the accessories now available are divided into “Pelcor Collection” which is a trendier line and “Pelcor Must-Haves” which are pieces with a timeless design and at more [...]
Downtown has another store of an international streetwear brand starting today. It’s found on number 224 of Rua Aurea, a few steps from the recent Merrell shop. This time it’s the American brand Carhartt founded in 1889 in Detroit and available in Europe since 1994. In this new space in Lisbon you’ll find a limited [...]
You could call it Lisbon’s Chinatown or Little India, but considering the number of ethnicities (mostly Asian and African) in the neighborhood you can simply call it Lisbon’s “ethnictown.” That neighborhood is Mouraria just north of downtown and below the castle’s hill and its main square (Martim Moniz) with a castle view will be transformed [...]
It was supposed to have happened over a year ago, but the José Saramago Foundation will only open its doors in June. The reason for the constant delays was the discovery of archaeological remains under the historic building that will now be dedicated to the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning author. The emblematic Casa dos Bicos was [...]