Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is an easy city to love. Straddling the banks of the Tagus River just inland from the coast, it is a city brimming with character and history and charm, and did I mention that the food and the light is to die for?
I spent a blissful week in Lisbon wandering the cobbled streets of this wonderful city, stopping for a coffee or a pastel de nata here and there (and everywhere). Despite the seven hills Lisbon is a great walking city and when your legs finally do give out it is never far to one of the city's atmospheric trams. Who does cities like this?
The light in Lisbon is beautiful for photography.
Lisbon architecture reflected.
Price do Comercio
25 April Bridge and the Tagus at low tide.
Goodness in a can. All manner of canned fish!
Of cobblestones and reflections
The Santa Justa Elevator
Color and texture in Alfama.
Lisbon on the move
Typical Lisbon architecture. The outside of a building covered in azulejos tiles
Carmo Convent. One of the few central Lisbon buildings to survive the earthquake of 1755.
Statuary in the square
Anyone for a 1934 vintage port? Make mine a double
Tourism happens