{"id":4423,"date":"2019-03-23T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2019-04-09T04:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:01:34","slug":"lisbon-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/lisbon-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The time is almost up.\u00a0 Three weeks have gone by quickly but, there\u2019s always next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the\nphotos we\u2019ve taken are of the street kind; glimpses of people and day to day\nactivity.  Lisbon\u2019s very laid back and with\nthe weather being endless days of blue sky and sunshine, it made it easy to\nwalkabout and point the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We walked\nto the LxFactory market one day.  That was\na 17km hike so good thing we are in reasonable shape.  It\u2019s an old run-down factory district which\nnow houses trendy IT offices for the working millennials.  On Sunday\u2019s there\u2019s a market and a whole lot\nof food joints.  The walk was good but,\nmeh, a markets\u2019 a market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LX FACTORY,<\/em> is an abandoned industrial site which has been turned into a creative, cultural and gastronomic area inside restored factory buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We also\nwalked over to the Aqueduct which we didn\u2019t see last time.  In fact, we didn\u2019t even know about it.  That was another 17km walk, but worth it.  Built in the mid-1700\u2019s this massive\nundertaking was to bring fresh clean water into Lisbon and was still being used\nuntil the 1970\u2019s.   Pretty impressive\nengineering.  Makes me wonder why we can\u2019t\neven build a stupid pipeline in Canada! \n(that last comment was just to piss off the eco-freaks btw. 😊).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lisbon Aqueduct is a gigantic set of arches (65 m tall) which spans the Alc\u00e2ntara valley ending at the reservoir of Amoreiras. Its source, located 18.5 km away in Cane\u00e7as, is known as \u00c1guas Livres (free waters).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This cistern of water is the underground part of Lisbon’s Aqueduct system<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We also wandered by a very elegant cathedral we hadn\u2019t seen before.  Cathedrals, as you know, being the thing over here.  Also pretty impressive engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lisbon Cathedral<\/strong> (Santa Maria Maior de Lisboa<\/em> ; Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major<\/em>). Since the beginning of the cathedral’s construction, in the year 1147, the building has been modified several times and survived many earthquakes. It is now a mixture of different architectural styles and has been classified as a National Monument since 1910. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We did manage to get out to Cascais where the river meets the ocean.  A very high-end touristo spot with lots of money floating in the marinas.  It\u2019s a 30-minute train ride from Lisbon and part of the metro system so for the price of bus fare, you can spend the day loafing on some nice beaches.  Sintra is basically down the road from here but we did that last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, we\u2019ve\nwandered all over the city and there\u2019s still much to see and do, but I think we\u2019re\nready for a change and the ocean beaches on the Algarve are calling our\nnames.  Weather looks real nice there\ntoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time is almost up.\u00a0 Three weeks have gone by quickly but, there\u2019s always next year. Most of the photos we\u2019ve taken are of the street kind; glimpses of people and day to day activity.  Lisbon\u2019s very laid back and with the weather being endless days of blue sky and sunshine, it made it easy to walkabout and point the camera. We walked to the LxFactory market one day.  That was a 17km hike so good thing we are in reasonable shape.  It\u2019s an old run-down factory district which now houses trendy IT offices for the working millennials.  On Sunday\u2019s there\u2019s a market and a whole lot of food joints. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}