4.1.11 Lisboa Story Centre
Praça do Comércio 78
Location HERE.
Open daily from 1000 to 1900 hours.
Behind the colonnade at the eastern side of Praça do Comércio is this exhibition space that gives you a potted history of Lisbon in around an hour, give or take the odd ten minutes. Free for those with a valid Lisboa Card. Most useful for those new to The Great City.
You get an audio guide and headset in your preferred language, then follow the (Latin) numbers, from I to XII, and XIV to XVII. The audio guide knows where in the exhibition space you are, and tells you when the commentary has finished, so you can move on to the next instalment.
The missing numeral, XIII, is a depiction of events on November 1, 1755, when the Great Earthquake struck the city. For this part, take off the headset, sit back, and relax, if that’s the right term for such a grim event.
What the stories told do very well is to emphasise the long history of the city, that it was a major trading post in the wake of the voyages of discovery, the scale of destruction brought by the earthquake and tsunami in 1755, and that what emerged afterwards was a completely new city.
And, effectively, the line is that this new city - for which read the Pombaline Downtown - is the Lisbon offered to tourists, which is more or less correct. The business districts around the Cintura, areas like Entrecampos, Rego and Sete Rios, are by inference not part of the tourist offer. Maybe Parque das Nações, the area around Oriente, is.
Metro Terreiro do Paço; Tram 15 and 25; Buses 728, 732, 735, 759, 760, 781.
Location HERE.
Open daily from 1000 to 1900 hours.
Behind the colonnade at the eastern side of Praça do Comércio is this exhibition space that gives you a potted history of Lisbon in around an hour, give or take the odd ten minutes. Free for those with a valid Lisboa Card. Most useful for those new to The Great City.
In the colonnade behind the trams
The missing numeral, XIII, is a depiction of events on November 1, 1755, when the Great Earthquake struck the city. For this part, take off the headset, sit back, and relax, if that’s the right term for such a grim event.
What the stories told do very well is to emphasise the long history of the city, that it was a major trading post in the wake of the voyages of discovery, the scale of destruction brought by the earthquake and tsunami in 1755, and that what emerged afterwards was a completely new city.
And, effectively, the line is that this new city - for which read the Pombaline Downtown - is the Lisbon offered to tourists, which is more or less correct. The business districts around the Cintura, areas like Entrecampos, Rego and Sete Rios, are by inference not part of the tourist offer. Maybe Parque das Nações, the area around Oriente, is.
Metro Terreiro do Paço; Tram 15 and 25; Buses 728, 732, 735, 759, 760, 781.
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