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The Santa Justa Lift ( Portuguese: Elevador de Santa Justa, pronounced [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ ˈʒuʃtɐ] ), also called Carmo Lift ( Portuguese: Elevador do Carmo, [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðu ˈkaɾmu] ), is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de ...
The Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon is a luxury hotel located in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It was built in the 1950s on the wishes of the leader of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship, António de Oliveira Salazar , who considered that the capital had no hotel of sufficient quality for important foreign visitors.
The Livraria Lello & Irmão, commonly known in English as the Lello Bookshop, is a bookshop located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto. Along with Bertrand in Lisbon, it is one of the oldest bookstores in Portugal and frequently rated among ...
There are 17 World Heritage Sites listed in Portugal, with a further 18 on the tentative list. The first four sites listed in Portugal were the Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon, the Monastery of Batalha, the Convent of Christ in Tomar, and the town of Angra do Heroísmo, in 1983. The most recent additions to the list ...
The Rua Augusta Arch (Portuguese: Arco da Rua Augusta) is a stone, memorial arch -like, historical building and visitor attraction in Lisbon, Portugal, on the Praça do Comércio. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake. It has six columns (some 11 m high) and is adorned with statues of various historical ...
www .sedelisboa .pt. The Cathedral of Saint Mary Major ( Portuguese: Santa Maria Maior de Lisboa or Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Mary Major ), often called Lisbon Cathedral or simply the Sé ( Sé de Lisboa ), is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Lisbon, Portugal. The oldest church in the city, initially built as a mosque, it is the seat ...
Livraria Bertrand is a Portuguese book retailer operating 59 branches nationwide, including 2 in Madeira. Founded in 1732, its original store in the Chiado neighborhood of Lisbon was declared to be the oldest operating bookstore in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011. [1] Bertrand has been frequented by numerous famous ...
Print on demand ( POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents, packaging, or materials) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints in single or small quantities. While other industries established the build-to-order business model, POD could only develop after the ...