LISBON | A Day In Portugal's Fascinating Capital!
good morning everyone it is day two from here in portugal right now we're in a lisbon in a neighborhood called alfama that's where we stay which is considered to be the oldest neighborhood in lisbon so we're going to be exploring this region and some other regions in this video today so this place is an old-fashioned place in a old building it's 70 us dollars and this is the view from the front of our building you can already see like the old style buildings the road as well so we're staying in this building here that's our room there see how old the place looks and this is exactly what you'd expect from the oldest neighborhood in lisbon you can definitely tell straight away right yeah but it's nice i mean you feel like you are definitely in a historical place yeah so it is very touristy so you do get like souvenir shops and stuff but there's loads of nice cafes like that one there and i think we're gonna go to one of these shows today called uh fado it's like a traditional music from this region so the street that we're on is called huawei sao miguel saint michael and right next to it you already got an epic looking old church i think that church is called uh sao miguel so you'll be seeing many churches around here it's also on a really nice square as well also got another nice restaurant over there so we're gonna have to do a lot of walking uphill this whole place is on a hill i guess that's the only spot you can dry your clothes around here we see them dangling from like the buildings right yeah like many many windows yeah with clothes yeah so everywhere around here is this you always get these like cool little archways little staircases little alleyways lots of nice little plants and stuff as well it's always a workout to walk around here so this is quite common around this neighborhood as well where you see these like really old walls that pretty much look like they're from like a castle or some sort of tower or something old historic walls so this neighborhood's also known for its many viewpoints like view index where you get some awesome views not even sure what this one is called we didn't even know that it existed but yeah look at those for some cool rooftop views huge church over there really nice cafe here we've been in this neighborhood once before but we didn't come around this area did we the the square is called las vegas we didn't come to this square last time yeah we didn't come here very lively yeah if you want a tuk-tuk tour you won't have any problem finding one here okay i think there's more tucked ups in southeast asia no no that's why it's a lot yeah a nice pink one there well look at that one it's like with the what is it like the tiles all different styles another cool way to get around is these uh trams here so you'll see uh tram lines all over the place i think we got on one last time didn't we yeah but not around this area no no no no other area but i think they're all around lisbon yeah jam pack look how many people are in there that's light transport in brazil so this right here is the most famous viewpoint in alfama called miradoro porters dosage yeah just some other awesome views i actually like the viewpoint from the other place more you could see more but you got the colorful buildings closer up on this one man we're getting lucky with the weather carol another beautiful winter sunny day we thought it would be cloudy and very cold but it's actually a good very good weather for walking yeah because yesterday was like 20 degrees and then it showed that today would be like cloudy or rainy yeah but definitely not it's around like 15 degrees though but it just feels really warm no wind i'm very good my we found yet again another cool little square here this one's nice because check this out there's some really awesome artwork here it's kind of like the the floor goes up curved up like a ramp almost and yeah you got like uh i guess like the floor tiles but they made art out of it a portrait so over here i think the artwork is called uh calzada in tribute to the fadista which i guess is the singer of that fado the music that we're hoping to see later on amalia rodriguez oh look at these buildings though beautiful i think out of all the tile buildings blue is the main color that they use right yes i think so yeah like the like that one or this one i guess there's a reason behind that i can even see more blue ones back there tiled ones man there's so many little rows to go down though it's hard to even choose where to walk we're just choosing any right yeah we're just going with the flow yeah we don't have any specific destination just walking around uh so now we're in the upper region of the neighborhood of alfama from what i read this is where the rich used to live in our farmer so yeah this is like the richer area kind of still looks similar though but the the roads are a lot bigger now oh check that out it's not like the little alleyways around this but yeah actually you can tell it does look a bit fancier this area the buildings this walkway here as well really nice oh look beautiful fountain foreign so this is another cool find while walking around aimlessly so this is uh igreja de gracia beautiful churchill with a nice little cafe and we've come across this view here miradoro which is the complete opposite side of the city from what we saw before way better views from this side so you can even see the the river back there with the big bridge that me and carol says like the san francisco bridge yeah yeah and you get awesome views of the the castle over there that we went to on our last visit really worth visiting the castle right all right there you go what was you saying because yeah it's a very very nice castle and also you have like amazing views of i think pretty much all lisbon it's a very it's it's very worth going yeah it's one of the best viewpoints and that's i think from the 11th century moorish castle so it's a really big castle check this guy out jamming in the window is only upon the self politician preaches to the poor white man you've got more than the blackstone combined so this is the miradoro the viewpoint that we came to last time it's called santa luzia so that at church there is a santa lucia and we like this one last time because it had the tiled walls as you can see here with more music as usual so far on this side you can see the port with the cruise ship that's actually moving isn't it yeah i'm not sure if it's arriving or leaving might be arriving yeah so there are cruise ships that come to lisbon don't know where from them so the tiles on the side of this church uh depicting when the christians took the castle from the moors even says the date here 11 47 yeah so it's kind of telling the story of when they did that so there's some more tiles here and this is the main square here in lisbon called prasado commercial that we're going to head to next and originally this is where the royal palace was which is that building there but there was a big earthquake in 1755 so that's no longer there you're going to see when we go in in person so we're in one of the main streets now right in the center busy street here it's like mainly a shopping street loads of stores here and we're looking for a place to eat we came here the other night and yeah in the middle there's these places where you can get a meal yeah so literally loads of options where you can eat around here non-stop restaurants in the middle so we found a spot to eat out here just off that main uh shopping street very close though so i'm gonna go for a very portuguese dish which is the sardines i think so pretty good price 8 euros 90. but yeah you can get all sorts of different fish very common here in portugal what are you going to get i i don't know maybe yeah okay so we also got some as a donuts some olives very popular in uh portugal yeah yeah super tasty so we always get that for uh starters in portugal here i got five nice chunky sardines and it always comes with a potato here in portugal yours looks really interesting as well yeah what is that exactly so it's style and it has eggs like scrambled eggs and also the potatoes how do you call this thin potatoes yummy you really like that right i love cod fish like we've been here for i don't know three days or two days and all of my meals are with cod fish that's great and this is a little thing in portuguese we call it batata not sure how it is in english it's like a little potato chip or something yeah i don't even know if we have that in england so tasty yeah and sardines is also a dish that i always eat here in portugal especially in algarve so yeah i eat it all the time tasty it's so good there's only like little bones in there but i don't know i think you can just eat the bones i usually eat them and i think they cook it with like thick sea salt in brazil we actually do that with the meat we use sea salt and not like the fines yeah but it really makes a big difference to the taste look at that so good so we just passed through the famous arch there uh so it's an absolutely gigantic archway and that was built to commemorate the reconstruction of lisbon after the big earthquake in 1755 absolutely massive probably one of the biggest archways that we've ever seen and right in front of the arch is the famous square so this is prasado commercial that i showed before on the tiled image so right now i think surrounding it these are all like government buildings although there are restaurants all in these little arches here and yeah this is just a super popular spot with tourists loads of tourist groups around here popular hangout spot as well and here in the center of the square we have a giant statue right there so this is of the king at the time of the earthquake dom jose the first don joseph and his royal palace would have been where this building is right here so that was the palace that got destroyed and i was reading about the earthquake it was completely insane apparently it destroyed like 85 of lisbon and it was one of the most deadliest um earthquakes ever to have happened the majority of it was uh from fire all the buildings burnt down because back then people used candles right so yeah the candles fell on the floor and yeah a lot of the buildings burnt down so obviously as you look around lisbon is just full of beautiful historic buildings but because of the earthquake things would have been even much older everything that you're looking at around here is probably from around the 18th and 19th century yes i think so and yeah everything looks beautiful like you said but i think that if it wasn't for the earthquake it would be just a different kind of buildings and architecture it would be i think it would just be different but still nice yeah so this neighborhood that we've come to now is called shiado you can see that store there has the name super busy around here it seems like another like shopping area probably the busiest area so far out of the mall and do some shopping carol yeah i want to but you just want to go to the historical places so even in this neighborhood it's all like uphill downhill got to do a lot of walking here as well right yeah all around the city it's uphill downhill so this place is the reason that we decided to come to this neighborhood so we're going to visit this uh old convent here which is now a museum called carmo and this square is called so just like all the other squares loads of cool places to sit i think a lot of europe's like that right like the squares always have a bunch of cafes yeah when i went to paris it was just like this and it's something that i really like i think even more than we see in like south america and stuff south america is more like bars to get drunk yeah yeah it's just different just a different vibe yeah here's more like well people still having beers i guess but yeah still people are still getting drunk but it seems to be like more cafes to have like coffee yeah and tea yeah also because of the weather yeah that too all right let's head into this uh convent right here yeah so this spot right here is five euros not too bad so this convent right here is a medieval one and it was originally built in 1389 and the reason that it is famous to visit now is because look at this there is no roof at all it's kind of been uh destroyed so this got destroyed by the same earthquake that i mentioned before the one in 1755 and apparently they were going to restore it but then yeah they just didn't so it's been left in this state but it's kind of cool to see one that hasn't been restored since all the others have been so i guess these are all pieces that uh yeah fell right that broke off from the 1300s yeah this would have been the top of the the pillars now i still can't imagine that that it destroyed 85 percent of lisbon it must have just looked like a war zone yeah and i think it took a lot a long time for them to recover and rebuild the city so yeah i think around like 100 years to really get back to how it is right now yeah this is crazy so i guess all the churches were like this that were here at the time so so this part is really cool it's actually a part that's still uh indoor still has the roof oh what is that like a sculpture can't really make it out it's really weathered check out this tomb here this is the most impressive one says fernando the first from the 14th century 13 82. yeah because think about it because of the earthquake we very rarely see uh portuguese churches from this time yeah medieval times now because all the ones obviously in south america after the colonials are after the 1500s yeah yeah so this is something unique for us yeah i don't remember seeing one from the 1300s super medieval looking so behind the convent there's this really famous elevator here the most famous elevator in lisbon unfortunately it's shot now usually you'll be able to go to the rooftop but it's uh closed so that is called elevator carmo or santa just and it's basically just link in the upper city over here to the lower because that's quite a way down over there and that was built in 1902 then over here you can see the back of the comment really well preserved music everywhere in lisbon yeah it's a very lively city yeah it really is wow these views though man might be one of the best like capitals to go to for views just because of all the hills yeah oh yeah you're right because of the hills yeah there are many viewpoints all around the city so it turns out that you could get the elevator but it was like over five euros just to go down a small distance it's just the like rooftop of it was off limits that's all you can actually see the walkway to the elevator here so what is it carol like three four floors or something yeah i don't really want to pay like over 10 euros no no yeah because i think that's the price to like the round trip but we would just use it to go down and yeah not worth it yeah not worth it so we're gonna head back to the alfama neighborhood now and try and go to one of those uh is it fado yeah yeah we're gonna try and check out the fado music foreign oh foreign m foreign is is so that restaurant that we went to for the fado show turned out to be right below the place that we're staying literally the floor below us we could hear people singing the other nights but we didn't realize it was so close we thought it was like around the corner or something it didn't actually sound that loud kind of weird especially because inside the restaurant it was super loud we didn't really know what to expect from the music but we definitely didn't expect that that kind of a singing it was almost like uh opera singing like super powerful voices so yeah it's pretty cool and the food was good as well and it was nice how they made it like so dark created uh yeah pretty good vibe so many of the bars and restaurants have um yeah those fado shows so you don't really have to go anywhere specific if you come to alfama you'll just find a place easy enough and the next video should be from the algarve we're gonna go there to visit our parents probably only gonna make one video because it's gonna be just a few days there very quick so if you like this video from lisbon just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this one follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next
2022-03-06 10:29
