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Bairro Alto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbajʁu ˈaltu]; literally: Upper District) is a central district of the city of Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. Unlike many of the civil parishes of Lisbon, this region can be commonly explained as a loose association of neighbourhoods, with no formal local political authority but social and historical significance to the urban community of Lisbon and ...
13 June (St. Anthony's Day) Website. cm-lisboa.pt. Lisbon (/ ˈlɪzbən / LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [4] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [5]
Lisbon Baixa. The Baixa ("Downtown"), also known as the Baixa Pombalina (IPA: [ˈbajʃɐ põbɐˈlinɐ]; "Pombaline Downtown"), is a neighborhood in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. It consists of the grid of streets north of the Praça do Comércio, roughly between the Cais do Sodré and the Alfama district beneath the Lisbon Castle ...
Gare do Oriente (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡaɾɨ ðu oɾiˈẽtɨ]), or alternately, the Lisbon Oriente Station is one of the main Portuguese intermodal transport hubs, and is situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, municipality of Lisbon.
Rossio railway station. Main façade towards Rossio Square. The Rossio Railway Station ([ʁuˈsi.u]; Portuguese: Estação de Caminhos de Ferro do Rossio) is a railway station in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the Rossio square. The station was formerly known as Estação Central (Central Station) and that designation still appears in its façade.
In 2010, Portugal legalised same-sex marriage, the eighth country worldwide to do so and the sixth in Europe, and in 2016 same-sex couples became eligible to legally adopt. In 2019, ILGA-Europe ranked Portugal 7th out of 49 European countries in relation to LGBT rights legislation. In March 2019, the country was named the world's best LGBT ...
Edward VII Park (Portuguese: Parque Eduardo VII) is a public park in Lisbon, Portugal. [1] The park occupies an area of 26 hectares (64 acres) to the north of Avenida da Liberdade and Marquis of Pombal Square in Lisbon's city center. The park is named for King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, who visited Portugal in 1903 to strengthen ...
The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portuguese: Área Metropolitana de Lisboa; abbreviated as AML) is a metropolitan area in Portugal centered on Lisbon, the capital and largest city of the country. The metropolitan area, covering 17 cities in 18 municipalities, is the largest urban area in the country and the 10th largest in the European Union, with ...