Lisbon - Bairro Alto

Bairro Alto (BA), began as an expansion sixteenth century (the first allotment of Vila Nova de Andrade - BA in 1513 century. XVI) from the city of Discovery, scheduled on the basis of modern urban fabric orthogonal, where they settled, the next hand, popular (housing linked to merchant shipping routes) and aristocrats. It was identified as a typical neighborhood of great animation, from the nineteenth century. With a genuine experience, have their memories connected to the literary tradition, attracted the press, and the bohemian life, revived new living spaces and provided a cultural experience, which still remains.

Place of great attraction for all who like to have fun, is a very lively, with local life. The offer is great, is the center of the most lively nightlife of Lisbon: typical restaurants, bars, fado houses, bookstores, libraries, theaters, some of the creative workshops, fashion shops and design.

In Viewpoints, facing the beautiful scenery of Lisbon, now the BA is part of a historic district and typical (with narrow streets and perpendicular windows adorned with flowers), the most cherished of Lisbon. The gilt and polychrome, the tiles, decorative painting, is an example of the exuberance of decoration, to join her creativity and innovation. These are some of the characteristics of Portuguese Baroque. With notable examples of Portuguese art, architecture and civil religion in a spirit of time that marked the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

It is quite clear the difference of two meshes corresponding to different stages of urbanization (Vila Nova de Andrade / BA) as well as a profile more popular in the south and ambience, more aristocratic north. The Rose Street and Century Street, established the western limits and still articulated, some sections of rural tradition. The centers of urban life were located in the churchyard of St. Roque and the site of the Port of Santa Catarina to Chiado.

The North Zone (BA) connected early in the graphic arts sector, which comes from the press until the current design. Residents accounted for sayings strata (workers, laborers and employees), who lived in houses of small size. Due to a progressive replacement gradually became less room for trendy shops, restaurants, bars, traditional shops.


The South Zone (B.A): essentially offices. The social composition of residents was relatively differentiated, the population was more bourgeois and lived in larger houses (many with drawn Pombal).


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