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Fashionable Lisbon | Maxine Jones | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

Architecturally the city is a mixture of medieval Moorish and elegant 18th century. Everything is tinted with sepia charm

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Five Things to do in Lisbon | Philip Marsden | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

Lisbon is a city to wander in. With its compact centre, its fresh Atlantic air, (and) its tumbling cobbled streets, it offers a host of incidental pleasures…

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Golf in and around Lisbon | Peter D Smith | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

You might need a rental car to reach most Lisbon's golf courses - they don't tend to be handily close to metro stations, and getting on and off the bus with a full set of clubs tends to upset the locals as you knock them out of the way

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Lisbon | Anthony Healy | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

From the wide River Tagus the visitor is welcomed by a vista of white stone buildings under burnt amber-tiled roofs, which carpets an amphitheatre, scooped into the hills

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Lisbon | Marc Zakian | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

The crisscross of 17th century streets which make up the Bairro Alto are a contrasting mixture of cool shops squeezed into the front-rooms of former houses, trendy restaurants and traditional cafes run to a constant soundtrack of Potugese football, tattoo parlours and jazz and fado bars.

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Lisbon Past and Present | Simon Busch | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

My Belem bakery experience confirmed me in my belief that Portugal leads Europe in confectionery concoction. Portuguese tarts are unalloyed pleasure - the sensual, sticky underbelly of all that Catholicism

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Lisbon: the Friendliest City on Earth | Peter D Smith | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

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Portugal | Tim Elliott | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon

There is something endearingly glory-boxish about this city — a European capital, after all — where all the buildings look like wedding cakes and no structure is over five storeys high

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