Pictures From a Forgotten Portugal

By Miguel Carvalho Abrantes

There are many places to visit in Portugal, but what stories lie behind them?
Written by someone who was born and raised in Portugal and who loves showing around its cities, this unusual book briefly presents you some forgotten or now-lost places from the areas of Lisbon, Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra and Coimbra, along with three surprises from other locations. Each place is presented with some old pictures, along with a small part of its background story.

This is a very special edition of the "Portugal with a Native" series, specially designed for those readers who are interested in more obscure places and stories from Portugal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
• Release date: Apr 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9788832574784

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Pictures

From a Forgotten Portugal

Table of Contents

Title Page

Pictures From a Forgotten Portugal (What to Visit in Portugal, #4)

Introduction

Lisboa

Cascais, Oeiras and Sintra

Coimbra

Three Miscellaneous Entries

Miguel Carvalho Abrantes

Copyright © 2019 Miguel Carvalho Abrantes

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher.

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Index

Introduction.............................................................................................................................1

Lisboa........................................................................................................................................3

Quinta Real de Caxias’ Waterfall..................................................................................3

The Old Zoo.........................................................................................................................4

The Public Promenade.....................................................................................................9

The Mosteiro dos Jerónimos and the Torre de Belém.........................................12

An Empty Place... For Now..........................................................................................15

The Arches of the City...................................................................................................16

A Long-forgotten University........................................................................................17

Where is the Castle?......................................................................................................18

Cascais, Oeiras and Sintra...............................................................................................23

Two Buildings, Two Different Fates..........................................................................23

The Forgotten Palace.....................................................................................................24

The Cascata dos Poetas................................................................................................26

Behind Sintra’s Most Famous Attraction.................................................................28

The (Often Ignored) Peninha.......................................................................................28

Coimbra..................................................................................................................................31

Now Missing from the University..............................................................................31

Below the Sé Velha.........................................................................................................32

Three Miscellaneous Entries...........................................................................................35

Évora’s Templo de Diana..............................................................................................35

Leiria’s Map of Monuments.........................................................................................36

Porto’s Palácio de Cristal.............................................................................................37

Introduction

This is a very special edition of the What to Visit in Portugal series. Instead of presenting a particular city and many of the things you can visit there, like the previous volumes did, this one essentially focuses on the same areas of the previous three volumes – Lisboa[1], Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, and Coimbra – but features many pictures related to forgotten places in there[2], along with a few other surprises at the end. Some of the places in this book have long disappeared, others have been consigned to oblivion for a shorter while, but they all have something in common – most people, even natives and locals, don’t usually know about these snippets from the past.

Alongside with those unusual pictures, you’ll also be able to read some information regarding each place, and whether you can still visit them in some way, or not. In fact, it is up to you to prevent these places from being fully forgotten, because, unless you pass them along to others, chances are than even fewer and fewer people will know about them and the stories they hide.

This is a very