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boomerang-shaped structure, trace the development of
designed to stop falling debris. Lisbon’s public transport. You
Continue past this and it’s a can then take a fun trip on a
nice 20-minute walk to Belém. tram to the other two zones,
which are filled with historic SHOP
trams and buses, including
early horse-drawn varieties.
8 "\-= Down by the river at the Colombo
Fundação Oriente bottom of the site, a collection Shopping Centre
Museu of old shipping containers and This is Lisbon’s largest
double-decker buses make up shopping centre. The
⌂ Avenida Brasília, Doca sprawling complex
de Alcântara Norte @ 712, Village Underground, an houses over 340 stores,
innovative work space for
714, 728, 738, 742 # 10am– including many well­
6pm Tue–Sun (to 10pm Fri) Lisbon’s creative set. known brands, more
∑ museudooriente.pt than 60 restaurants
and an IMAX cinema.
This museum and cultural ⌂ Avenida Lusiada
centre is dedicated to showing 10 \-= ∑ colombo.pt
the historical and cultural LX Factory
links between Portugal and its ⌂ Rua Rodrigues Faria 103
former colonies in the East. @ 201, 742, 751, 756, 760 El Corte Inglés
The permanent exhibition ∑ lxfactory.com A large department
is split into two collections. store with a fantastic
The Portuguese Presence in Virtually beneath the Ponte food hall, supermarket
Asia has a selection of exhibits 25 de Abril in a slightly shabby and nine floors selling
ranging from furniture and part of town, LX Factory is one everything from home
jewellery to porcelain, paintings of the hippest places in Lisbon. furnishings to designer
clothes. Upmarket
and textiles. Highlights include The complex is inside a huge international brands –
17th- and 18th-century Chinese former textiles plant, with the
and Japanese folding screens warehouses, factory spaces including Ralph Lauren
and Versace – can be
and some rare examples of and courtyards transformed found here.
Namban art – Portuguese- into studios and workshops for
influenced Japanese art of the the arts, fashion and creative ⌂ Avenida António
16th and 17th centuries. media. Woven among them de Aguiar
The second exhibition is the are innovative cafés, bars, ∑ elcorteingles.pt
Kwok On Collection, which fea- restaurants and shops. Visit on
tures the performing arts of a Sunday morning when a lively
vast geographic area exten- flea market takes place.
ding from Turkey to Japan. It
includes fine masks from Asia
and a section on shadow and
puppet theatre from India,
China and Indonesia.

9 "=
Museu da Carris
⌂ Rua 1 de Maiao @ 714,
727, 732 # 10am–6pm Tue–
Sat ∑ museu.carris.pt
Carris is the company that
runs Lisbon’s surface public
transport and this engaging
museum details the history of
a system that has to negotiate
a broad river estuary and
some serious hills since 1872.
Set in a sprawling former
tram depot, the museum is Shelves stacked to
divided into three zones. The the ceiling at a book­
first uses various exhibits to shop in LX Factory
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