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You can find beautiful viewpoints like Miradouro de Santa Luzia scattered across Lisbon, perfect for enjoying sunset views over the Portuguese capital with a glass of white port and tonic

Forget Valentine's Day, love is in the air this month. Not known to many, August is Romance Awareness Month which is the perfect time to celebrate your loved ones. Besides the quintessential elements of flowers and chocolates, how about dreaming up your next romantic vacation with your beau? If you're torn between the fairytale-like Venice and the City of Love,...

Lisbon is full of exciting bars that make every day feel like a special occasion. These are the bars in Lisbon youll want to visit.

Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in Europe, and touring its museums is one of the best ways to get to know the city. Heres what to see.

Hidden bars, architectural gems and brilliant restaurants and museums are among our tipsters’ highlights of this gleaming city

Blast from the past: visiting Lisbon’s revolution sites from 1385 to 1974 For the anniversary of the revolution of 25 April 1974, the Museum of Lisbon – Teatro Romano – offered a free guided visit through the city’s most important revolution sites from 1385, to 1974. Throughout Portugal’s history, Lisbon has been the centre stage of many coups, insurrections, and rebellions, which forever changed the whole country. So what better day than the anniversary of the revolution to travel ba...

There are plenty of fish in the sea And Lisbon has them all. This is a city serving up some of the best seafood I have tasted—a bold statement coming from someone whose former stint as a food critic (albeit brief, there are way too many calories in food critiquing) in New York City where I spent my affirmative years writing all the restaurant articles BlackBook and The New York Post would permit me — this inadvertently led to my myriad seaside escapades across the Amalfi Coast, South of Fra...

Lisbon earthquake of 1755, series of earthquakes that occurred on the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, causing serious damage to the port city of Lisbon, Port., and killing an estimated 60,000 people in Lisbon alone. Violent shaking demolished large public buildings and about 12,000 dwellings. Because