Lisbon city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels | Travel | The Guardian

Lisbon city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels | Travel | The Guardian: "Portugal’s capital is bursting with culture and great places to eat, stay and party – and it’s the cheapest city break destination in western Europe"

Pastel perfection … Lisbon skyline at Alfama, one of the city’s older districts. Photograph: Alamy

Assemble a city-break destination from a wishlist of components and you get Lisbon: a wide glittering river, limpid skies, steep cobbled streets, palaces, churches (and a castle, of course), tiles in pink, mint and indigo, and cheap, fresh, grilled sardines to eat outside a tasca (bar) in the sun. It’s a place so beautiful you can’t believe people are using it to live in. And Lisbon is decidedly lively. Every year it seems there is more to do, more to eat and more distance to cover.


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