#156 - My Neighborhood VI

Av. Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro.

#155 - My Neighborhood V

Restaurant Aya

"It is considered one of the best Japanese restaurants of the capital, where the niponic flavours and fragrances are mixed to create dishes that are true delicacies. All this on the direction of the head Takashi Yoshitake." [*]

Environment and decoration: Decoration in soft colors, medium light, calm and relaxing environment.
Specialties: Tempura (fried panados); Sushi and Sashimi (raw fish); Sukiyaki and Udonsuki (fondues); Makimono; Porco panado; fried chicken with special sauce; saké.
Parking: Yes

http://www.ayarestaurante.com/

Click here for a macro of the vessel in the first picture.

#154 - My Neighborhood IV

German Evangelical Church of Lisbon.

#153 - June 2008 Theme Day: My corner local shop

It is not in a corner or in my neighborhood but I have already bought here delicious strawberries!

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#152 - My Neighborhood III

The neighborhood does not only have new buildings, but old ones too that resist I don't know how.
This house has been abandoned and two homeless live there.

Rua Basilio Telles, between Av José Malhoa e Av Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro.

#151 - My Neighborhood II

Looking at the oposite side of Av. José Malhoa (Yesterdays photo) you see the Twin Towers.

"This complex is the most known work of foirmer architect Olga Quintanilha, who unfortunately died on september the 13th 2005.

This 70.000 square meters complex is used for commerce and habitation, is based at Sete Rios and is inserted between Avenida Jose Malhoa and Rua de Campolide intersection.

Very polemic as it was the first complex to raise higher than 25 floors with its 28 floors, with the aproval of former district president João Soares.

On the lower part you can partially see the small shopping center which has 2 rooms for cinema, small (but very expensive) stores and an area with fast food restaurants and others." [*]

#150 - My Neighborhood

I'll take advantage of being at home for some days to show you my neighborhood.

This photo is of Av. José Malhoa, street that should contain the major concentration of hotels in Lisbon. Often when I go out turists ask me indications on a map.

In the background you see the beautiful Mosque of Lisbon.

I worked many years on this street in the building at the right with the green banner.

#149 - "The Cathedral"

"The Estádio da Luz (pron. IPA: [ɨʃ.'ta.di.u dɐ luʃ]), officially named the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica and commonly mistranslated as Stadium of Light, is a football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, the home of SL Benfica. It is also called A Catedral ("The Cathedral") by Benfica's supporters.
Luz is actually the area of Lisbon in which the Estádio da Luz stands and the word 'luz' happens to also mean 'light'. As the people of Lisbon often referred to the original stadium, demolished beginning in 2002, as simply the light, the common English name for the stadium became the stadium of light. The Stadium of Light in Sunderland, England may well have been inspired by this Lisbon example, though it has other well established reasons for bearing the name.
It hosted several matches in the 2004 European Football Championship, including the final. The previous Benfica stadium (also called "Estádio da Luz" and one of the largest stadiums in the world with 120,000 seats) was demolished and the new one was built for the tournament with an official capacity of 65,647. The architect, Damon Lavelle, designed the stadium to use as much natural light as possible. It is classified by UEFA as a 5 star stadium, allowing it to host major European cup finals. The original Estádio da Luz, opened in 1954, hosted the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final before a crowd of well under 120,000, its absolute capacity in those years. Before that final it also hosted the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship final held in Portugal with an impressive attendance of 130,000. The original stadium replaced Estadio do Campo Grande."[*]

#148 - Rua Arco da Graça II

This small alley is close to a Guinean retaurante that I usually attend.

#147 - Rua Arco da Graça

Rua Arco da Graça is a small and quiet street very close to downtown where I like to go lunch and take pictures. The photo of the header was taken from a point of this street.

#146 - Au Bonheur des Dames

"IT’S EASY to walk around Lisbon’s downtown Baixa Chiado shopping area with your eyes figuratively shut and never notice the façades of the shops you enter. Yet, the route from Largo de Camões as far as Praça do Rossio is steeped in history (...) It was in the mid to late 19th century that the shopping zone took on the general appearance that it has today. Before then, shops were generally divided between open air markets or discreet boutiques for the rich and wealthy. They didn’t over-advertise themselves, have large windows or showy displays that could attract thieves and robbers. If you had the money, you were in the know and knew where to go. (...) Other gems worth looking out for include Vitrine (formerly Salon Trianon) dating from 1924, Au Bonheur des Dames, which was once a perfume shop, and Edifício Grandella, which had been one of Portugal’s first Harrod’s style department stores. These can be found on your way down towards Rossio." [*]

#145 - Lisbon Hippodrome II

International contest of official jumps

#144 - Lisbon Hippodrome

The Hippodrome in the Campo Grande held the oldest international contest of official jumps of the world, organized by the Portuguese Society Hípica (SHP), receives this year for the first time the five-star distinction, the highest ranking official attributed the bidding.

#143 - Colombo Shopping Centre

The Colombo Shopping Centre was inaugurated on September 29, 1997, has 427 stores and 120 thousand square meters, and thus the largest commercial center of Europe.

The architecture of the area is based on the time of the Portuguese Discoveries, one of the most important periods of history of Portugal. The squares and streets in the center have names depicting it, such as Avenue of Discovery and Square Tropic of Cancer. It has quite trade, as a kind of private city.

#142 - Spanish Embassy and The Mosque of Lisbon

Photo taken from Gulbenkian garden

"The Mosque of Lisbon was built on the street to the Mosque, (Blue Neighborhood), near the Plaza of Spain.

It is kind of prayer room with oriental wide, dominated by a dome, and with Minarete ramp outside. It was built between 1979 and 1985 with the help of a large group of Islamic countries, the commitment of the Islamic community of Lisbon and the City of Lisbon which ceded the land. It also aims religious and social support to Muslims living, temporarily or permanently the area of the city. The mosque is for believers place of prayer and meditation individual and collective space and a much appreciated rest, peaceful coexistence and sharing society.

The Iberian Peninsula was Muslim territory since the seventh century until at least the sixth century, but in the south Islam remained longer, in some places by the end of the fifteenth century. Luxbuna, Lisbon Muslim, was conquered by Christians in 1147, but the community of believers was organized in Lisbon to the Moorish quarter of the sixteenth century around its two mosques and "Madrassa".

The influence of civilization and art in the Muslim way of being and living in Portugal and Spain was very deep and in many ways still remains. Islam currently has more than 950 million believers throughout the world, particularly in Asia (650 million) and Africa (270 million). "

Texts of Jose Luis de Matos published in the Guide to Temples, edition of the Lisbon City Hall with the National Center for Culture

Curiously I hardly find information about the magnificent palace (Palace of Palhavã) where the Embassy of Spain in Lisbon is located.

Dedico o post de hoje ao Tatau que está em Madrid e apesar de vir todos os dias visitar este blog nunca disse um Alô. :)