Post boxes
by berenices
In places around the city, you can find these red post or mail drop boxes. There are the smaller versions, but only for domestic mails. These bigger ones marked CORREIOS, can be for various types of mails. On one side can be found a panel where postage stamps can be bought. There are different types of stamps, just press the button for what you need -- one is for domestic speed mail (correio azul), another is for domestic normal (verde), and another is for international (international). The machine gives change, and it has instructions in English as well.
With the mail service ubiquitous and accessible through this, you avoid the long queues and usually slow service in post offices. In the Restauradores area and other touristic places, these boxes are situated in conspicuous areas.
Great for dropping those postcards in with no hassle or pain!
Tiles, tiles and more tiles
by TheWanderingCamel
Now, if I'd had my own camera and no injured knee, there'd have been dozens of photos of Lisbon's tiles to choose from to show here - I just loved them - but with MrL's finger on the shutter most of the time and his eye and my thoughts on other things, most of them are just in my mind's eye.
The variety is extraordinary, beautiful blue and white panels, the facades of houses completely tiled in a single repeating pattern known as tapetes (carpets), handpainted friezes, metro stations, shop and restaurant interiors. Some really stand out - beautiful 19th century panels in shades of gold and cream on a house in Rue da Trinidad, a glimpse from a tram of a riotous frieze of Art Nouveau flowers and dragonflies, scenes of old Lisbon at the Miradouro de Santa Luzia, room after room in the lovely Casa de Alentejo where we had dinner with a2lopes and globetrott.
Of course I had to bring some home with me - a small panel of four old hand-painted tiles bought from a little flea-cum-antique market in Belem that are going to look great on the wall of a garden shed.
Visit two nice little towns...
by maxovna
Visit two nice little towns situated very close to Lisbon - Cascais and Sintra. And of course - Cabo da Roca - the most western point of continental Europe.
Welcome to my Portugal page, where I wrote the information of my visit to those wonderful places. My memories of Lisbon are very warm. The only thing that spoilt the excitement a bit was unbearable heat, so I could hardly move. I remember sitting on the grass in front of Jeronimos Monastery watching its facade, and from time to time beautifully coloured trams passed by. At last we took one of them to take us to the port, where our cruise liner was waiting for us.
SÉ CATHEDRAL
by LysDor
The place of Sé Cathedral with its Church of Santa Maria Mayor has been a place of worship far before it´s construction in the 12th century.
I was told, that it´s 'a late-Romanesque style with Gothic, Mannerist, Baroque, neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic elements'.
Unique then, must I say!!
Ginginha
by solopes
Local traditions are fading, but some still have their followers. Ginginha is one of them: two tiny shops were the landmark of this cherry liquor, that, of course, you may buy everywhere, including shops and supermarkets. But the tradition was to stop, ask for a Ginginha at the counter, and drink it outside, watching the passing people.
Portuguese sanitary authorities forced the closing of the small stalls that traditionalists would like to reopen. Meanwhile, Largo de S. Domingos keeps being a talking area, only without the glass in people’s hands. Till when?
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