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A typical lamp that can still be found in many places of the older parts of Lisbon.Since a few years ago Lisbon's municipality has been making efforts to rebuild the oldest buildings in town, bringing back life to areas where many buildings were just about to collapse.
This building is one of those already rebuilt.
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posted by DCveR at 3:11 PM
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One of the things I adore about Lisbon (ughhhhh...I hope we get to move there someday kinda' soon) is that you can be walking down the street in a perfectly modern, cosmopolitan city and then walk three blocks off the main path and be transported into another century...or at least another decade many, many decades ago. I suppose you might be able to say this about plenty of European cities, but for an American, that's a pretty incredible thing.
portuguesa: You're right, it's pretty much the same all over Europe, guess we sometimes don't value it that much because we're just too used to it.
yes i approve this
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I agree. There's a little too much pulling down of things here in the UK and replacing them with glass and steel ugliness. Like your photo tho.
dan: I think you may have given me an idea for a future post... we have some of that here too, but we also have areas where the new buildings melded into the ancient ones in a rather nice way.
christine: In central Portugal traditionally buildings have one strong color and white trimming, in southern Portugal buildings are white white trimmings of a strong color. The most used colors are blue, yellow and pink. In the northern part of the country traditional buildings have dull colors, with some of them being made out of granite.
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