Page 54 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Lisbon

52  Lisbon area b y area

street-by-street: Bairro alto and Chiado

The bairro alto (high quarter) is a fascinating area of cobbled
streets adjacent to the Carmo and Chiado areas. since the
1980s, this has been Lisbon’s best-known nightlife zone,
with countless small bars and restaurants alongside the
older casas de fado. Much restoration work has taken place
over the last few years, and many modern buildings now
stand alongside old, peeling houses and tiny grocery shops.
in contrast, the Chiado is an area of elegant shops and old- R u a d O n O R T E
style cafés that extends down from Praça Luís de Camões
towards rua do Carmo and the baixa. Major renovation R u a d a m i s E R i C Ó R d i a
work has taken place since a fire in 1988 (see p54)
destroyed many of the buildings.
R u a d a s G á v E a s

Praça Luís
de Camões

Once a haunt of writers and
intellectuals, Chiado is now an
elegant shopping district. The
A Brasileira café, on Largo do
Chiado, is adorned with
gilded mirrors. R u a d O a L E C R i m

Largo do Chiado is
flanked by the churches L . d O C h i a d O
of Loreto and Nossa
Senhora da Encarnação. T R a v E s s a d O C a R m O
The statue of Eça de Baixa-Chiado
Queirós (1845–1900), by Chiado R u a G a R R E T T
Teixeira Lopes, was erected
in 1903. The great novelist
takes inspiration from a Rua Garrett is
scantily veiled muse. the main shopping
street of the Chiado.

Tavares, at No. 37 Rua
da Misericórdia, first
opened as a café in
1784. Today it is an
elegant restaurant
decorated at the turn
Key
of the 20th century with
Suggested route mirrors and elaborate
stucco designs.

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