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Lisbon Charity Center ‘DONA AJUDA’: affordable items & vibrant community center

Charity Center ‘Dona Ajuda’ (Mrs. HELP) in Lisbon is not just a secondhand shop; it’s a vibrant community center located at the former Rato Market, where solidarity and creativity go hand in hand.

Lisbon & Charity Center ‘Dona’ Ajuda (Mrs. HELP), some volonteers & Operations Manager Pedro Folque (wearing a striped shirt)

Volonteers Graça, Ana, Staff member, Alice, Pedro, Ana, Maria & José, October 2025

Lisbon & Charity Center ‘Dona Ajuda’

One of the volunteers showed us where to drop off the donations.

Our visit was organized by NV Lissabon (Dutch Society) in cooperation with the Dutch-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce. A great experience !  🙂

Lisbon & Charity Center Dona Ajuda

Workshops, art exhibitions, and neighborhood activities

Charity Center ‘Dona Ajuda’ is a place where you can not only buy all kinds of affordable secondhand items, but also participate in inspiring workshops.

Art exhibitions and neighborhood activities are regularly organized.

Lisbon & Charity Center:  Dona Ajuda Ajudou…. (Mrs. HELP helped….)

Every donated item gets a second life here, enabling to support lots of families.

Circular economy

‘Dona Ajuda’ promotes the circular economy by giving used goods a new life and thus contributing to help people in need.

Lisbon & Charity Center Dona Ajuda

Enthusiastic team of volunteers

All kinds of stuff can be donated – such as (children’s) clothing, books, decorations, toys, paintings, or furniture. All the items wil be sorted by one of the volunteers.

Lisbon & Charity Center Dona Ajuda 

Lunch & Middle Eastern dishes

After walking around in the large hall (formerly a market) we enjoyed a delicious lunch in the building, provided by Mezze/Pão a Pão, specializing in Middle Eastern dishes, prepared by refugees.

Lisbon & Charity Center Dona Ajuda , MEZZE restaurant employees

Plant section & beautiful cactus

There’s also a plant section. Plants not in a good condition are lovingly cared for. My purchase: a beautiful cactus. Transporting it wasn’t easy because of the thorns, but with some help it ended up in my garden. Beautiful! 🙂

Lisbon & Charity Center ‘ Dona Ajuda’ ,  friend Margriet de Vrieze and my lovely dog Nelson 

Dona Ajuda’s volunteers sort the incoming donations by checking their condition, ensure that all goods are arranged, and send them to the correct destination.

New donations Charity Center ‘ Dona Ajuda’: work to do!!

Connect those who need help with those who can help

Dona Ajuda is a social solidarity Association that wants to contribute to a better world by creating networks, connecting those who need help with those who can help.

Lisbon & Charity Center ‘ Dona Ajuda’ & outside tasca ‘O Cantinho do Rato‘

October 1st 2025: new donation drop-off days 

Open everyday, from 11:00 till 19:00. Donations at Dona Ajuda will only be  possible between Thursday and Sunday.

This 3-day weekly pause will allow the sorting team to have the necessary time to carefully check and separate the items that arrive.

‘DONA AJUDA‘, R. Alexandre Herculano, 64 1250-012 Lisbon

Worth a visit! 🙂 🙂

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Breathtaking views Lisbon: restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, 10-min ferry trip & boat taxi

Nowadays Lisbon is suffering from the high number of tourists. Residents are protesting more and more…20 years ago this place was a ‘hidden gem’….. Stunning sunset! 

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio & friends from Japan/ Amsterdam August 2025

A 10-minutes ferry trip from Lisbon’s city center (Cais Do Sodré) to the other side of the Tagus river is really worth it! 

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio is one of my favorites, a small paradise & fresh & tasty fish! 🙂

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio : delicious (fish) lunch with Margarethe de Vrieze and Marjolein Petersen (& dog Nelson) May 2022

Right next to the elevator to the Cristo Rei Statue, restaurant Atira-te ao Rio (litt. ‘throw yourself into the river‘) is a space blessed by fabulous views over old town Lisbon.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & friend Josephine Lucassen (official tourist guide), March 12, 2020

The menu is typically Portuguese: dishes with good presentation and tasty. We ordered one of my favorite dishes, salada com polvo  (octopus salad), and shrimps.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & view 25 April bridge

Wintertime

These pictures are made in September on a beautiful sunny day, but in wintertime there’s also the possibility to enjoy the views of old town Lisbon inside the restaurant.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, September 2017

In wintertime the large windows allow the view to be equally (almost as) good as outside. The restaurant features an indoor room with a burning stove and a terrace with heaters and  blankets.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, August 2025

My choice: Tuna Tataki with Sautéed Rice with Vegetables and Fennel  🙂 🙂  €21

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, August 2025

After passing some abandoned and ruinous very old warehouses (lots of lovely graffiti ), there’s restaurant Atira-te ao Rio. ca. 10 minutes walk from the ferry.

NOW REMOVED: Very old abandoned warehouses with a long history (2018)

UPDATE 2025: the old warehouses are gone…..redevelopment plan restoring around 90,000 square meters, including a housing complex with around 300 homes, stores and services, a hotel with 160 rooms, social facilities and 500 parking spaces. (source: Lisboa Secreta)

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, April 2023

How to get there? 

Take a (cheap) ferry trip from the Cais do Sodré ferry terminal to Cacilhas,  (timetable vice verca) and after a 10 minutes walk along abadonded warehouses near the river Tagus there’s restaurant Atira-te ao Rio.

Cais do Sodré ferry terminal to Cacilhas,  (timetable vice verca)

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio
Cais do Ginjal, 69/70, Almada Centro, Lisbon
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Taxi boat service  -:) . Picture: restaurant Atira-te Ao Rio

Taxi boat service, from any deck in Lisbon. 24H/365 days. +351 939 175 05
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♥️of Lisbon: Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica’: ceramic sculpture, pottery & workshops

In the heart of Lisbon, ceramic artist António Salvador Carvalho opened his Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ (‘Sculptural Gallery‘) about a year ago. The area, Alcântara,  is charming and quiet.

Ceramic artist António Salvador Carvalho & Vase ‘Medusa’

Vase ‘MEDUSA’ & hair with living snakes

Medusa (Greek mythology) was a woman with living snakes in place of hair; anyone who looked upon her was turned to stone.

Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero  Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon… (more: Wikipedia).

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António:  “The process of creating the Medusa took a couple of weeks. The hairpieces design is what takes more time to accomplish because each one of them is hollowed inside to make the sculpture lighter although the full sculpture weights around 12 to 15 kilos in the end”.

The Medusa ends up to be a vase for flowers that subverts its symbolic meaning.

Studio Ceramic artist António Salvador Carvalho Lisbon

‘Gato por Lebre‘ (‘A Pig in a poke’ 😉 😉 )  immediately caught my attention :  beautiful and funny!

‘Galeria Escultórica‘ Lisbon & twinbrother António José Carvalho

Africa/Mozambique & Alentejo

Born in Lisbon in 1969, António Salvador studied sculpture in the University of Fine Arts. Most of his sculptures are in dialogue with childhood memories being Africa / Mozambique  (António‘s father worked in Africa for several years) when being a kid as well as folk art from the Portuguese Southern culture of Alentejo from where his family is.

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Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ Lisbon: Lindsay Renaud &  António

In the Studio, the atmosphere can be described as very pleasant and inspiring. Ceramic artworks are displayed (some creations ‘still in progress’).

Workshops

A Dutch friend of mine, AnneMarie, really enjoys the ceramic workshop  twice a week. She asked me to visit the studio while working on one of her new creations.

♥️Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ Lisbon & Dutch friend AnneMarie 🙂

TWINS:  António Salvador Carvalho & António José Carvalho

António Salvador: ‘We were born in Lisbon in the year that men went to the moon, separated by a five minute interval. We were so alike that few of us distinguished, whether by physical similarity or the name we shared’.

INSEPARABLE TWINS

António Salvador: ‘Because we are so much alike it was easier for us to change our identity countless times without no one would notice. We have always been inseparable even though life has taken us apart’.

Pottery wheel  lessons Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica’ & Lindsay Renaud

Oasis in a world of chaos and instability

António Salvador: ‘Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ is the place where we want to be at a time when the world is turned upside down with problems of all kinds. An oasis for people like us, who long for a sense of freedom, creative processes and the exchange of knowledge’.

♥️Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ Lisbon & Lindsay Renaud

Original pieces, pottery wheel & workshops

♥️Studio ‘Galeria Escultórica‘ Lisbon & Annick Rozendaal

António Salvador: ”We create original pieces that we sell and give introductory workshops on the pottery wheel, sculptural tile, support for ceramic sculpture projects, sharing of workshop space, and clay firings”.
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Studio Ceramic artist António Salvador Carvalho Lisbon 
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♥️Create your own ceramics with your own hands! 
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Lisbon, Portugal 1300-356
Phone:  (00351) 963 099 428
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Workshop ‘turning wheel’‘ Studio António Salvador Carvalho Lisbon 
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Lisbon at Christmas time, students, beggers, traditions & Xmas lingerie

Already in October Lisbon is busy decorating the streets and trees. Thousands of colourful Christmas lights decorate the city.  Christmas light restrictions across Portugal

November 2022: Praça Luis de Camões

Nowadays conventional lights were replaced by LED bulbs to reduce energy consumption.

Christmas lights in Lisbon in December

Planning to see Christmas lights in Lisbon?

Christmas lights in Lisbon will be switched on November 30th and will remain on until January 6 with a reduction in the daily operating hours.

More info: The Portugal News

Lisbon Chirstmas lights church in Mouraria near Praca Martim Moniz

Lisbon, historical area Mouraria, in December

Church near Praça Martim Moniz

A Lisbon shop in December & Xmas lingerie

Children’s choirs sing Christmas carols (Janeiras) in the streets of Lisbon.

The Janeiras are a great tradition.

Lisbon November 23rd children choir Christmas Carols Rossio

Rossio Square, Lisbon in November, children’s choir

Groups, mostly young people, walk through the streets from house to house. With their songs, they wish all residents a good and healthy New Year.

Lisbon, Christmas tree 2017

At the night of December 31, thousands of people gather near the waterfront of the Tagus River at Praça do Comércio, to welcome the new year.

More: Time Out

Christmas time in Lisbon students try to sing and ask or money

Tradition:

students (try to 😉   ) sing a Christmas Carol in the streets and ask for money..

Lisbon Christmas 2008 begging people

A woman, also dressed in black, is asking for money too…..

…..and there’s a lot of poor people begging on the streets of Lisbon, not only at Christmas time….

Lisbon Christmas lights Praca dom Pedro IV Rossio

Praca Dom Pedro IV (Rossio), Christmas decoration and beautiful ‘wave’ pavement

On Christmas Eve , December 24, mosts restaurants are closed from lunchtime.

Families gather around the Christmas tree. Many attend the Midnight Mass (Missa do Galo). After mass they gather around the table and have supper.

Firework Lisbon

Praça do Comércio, Lisbon December 31, 2017

December 31, in the best of Portuguese traditions, a shower of light and colour will flood Lisbon’s most famous square, Praça do Comércio, with a fireworks display to the sound of the twelve gongs.

Fireworks YouTube 2018

Praça do Comércio, Lisbon. December 2019.

Picture: Josephine Lucassen, professional tourist guide 

New Years Eve: From 22:00 there’s a big stage  at this square,there’re live concerts with famous Portuguese names and plenty of entertainment. According to the Portuguese tradition, twelve wishes are made to the sound of the twelve bell tolls, toasting with champaign to the new year.

Also in Parque das Nações there is a fireworks show near the river.

Traditional Portuguese New Years cake ( Bolo Rei). Picture: Britta Frahm

Feliz Natal! Traditional is the Bolo Rei (Kings’ cake). This fruitcake is a typically New Years cake, but is becoming popular during Christmas Holidays. In the cake there are two surprises: one is a little present, the other one is not welcomed: a raw broad bean. Whoever gets this bean has to buy (or prepare) the Bolo Rei in the coming year.

Feliz Natal: Merry Christmas!

Portuguese ‘Farturas‘ can be filled with flavoured jelly ( strawberry, chocolate). Very popular and delicious  🙂

Farturas (picture: Wikipedia).

HAPPY NEW YEAR! FELIZ ANO NOVO!

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Lisbon’s unique Aqueduct (from 1731, 65 m tall) & aqueduct serial killer Alves

Really worth a visit!

Water was in scarce supply even for Lisbon’s earliest inhabitants. In 1731 Portugal’s King João V (John V) decided to build an aqueduct (Aqueduto das Águas Livres, ‘free waters’). The project was paid by a special sales tax on beef, olive oil, wine and other products.

Aqueduct Lisbon (Aqueduto das Águas Livres), October 2022

Magnificent construction & misunderstandings

The magnificent construction caused constant misunderstandings between the royal power, engineers, architects and municipal institutions; abusive clerical interference found its way into the fray.

Aqueduct Lisbon (Aqueduto das Águas Livres, October 2022

Water Museum

Today, what the Portuguese think of as the Lisbon Aqueduct is that gigantic set or arches spanning the Alcântara valley, ending at the Mãe d’Água das Amoreiras Reservoir (Water Museum) of Amoreiras..

View from the Aqueduct Lisbon, October 2022

The main course of the aqueduct covers 18 km, but the whole network of canals extends through nearly 58 km. Its source is known as Águas Livres and is located in Caneças.

Aqueduct Lisbon (Aqueduto das Águas Livres, October 2022

important sources of water supply

The aqueduct consist of a complex series of underground galleries, arches and skylights linked to the visible principal body, known as the General Aqueduct. These are scattered all over the city, giving rise to numerous fonts which, in times gone by, were important sources of water supply for the city.

Entrance Water Museum Lisbon, Calçada da Quintinha, 6, Lisboa

Concluded in 1834 (although it began to supply water to Lisbon in 1748), displays visible Gothic influences in a period dominated by the Baroque style.

More information about architects and engineers

Water Museum (Mãe d’Água), Lisbon

Video Museu da Água  YouTube

After the earthquake of 1755, architect Custódio Vieira was granted pardon for the profligacy for which he had been accused owing to the amount of iron he used to strengthen the arch’s structure, for, despite being located on a seismic faultline, it had resisted the quake.

Water Museum (Mãe d’Água) Lisbon, October 2022

Diogo Alves, the ‘Aqueduct serial killer’

The public walkway along the interior gallery, named Arches Walk, which once offered a wonderful panoramic view to pedestrians, has been closed since 1844 due to the large number of suicides and murders, including those committed by the famous bandit Diogo Alves , the ‘Aqueduct serial killer’.

Aqueduct Lisbon. Picture:  Paulo Juntas (Wikipedia), Aqueduct arches (65 m tall) over the Alcântara valley.

‘ Water Museum‘, Calçada da Quintinha, 6, Lisboa, in charge of the aqueduct, organizes guided visits and tours.

Opening Hours | Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5:30 pm (closed for lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 pm). More: Wikipedia     Facebook 
Useful information

October 1st 2022: Aqueduct Lisbon & members of NV Lissabon

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Lisbon’s legendary flea market Feira da Ladra & Ronaldo’s sexy underwear

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama at Campo de Santa Clara , is Lisbons legendary flea market, held on Tuesdays and Saturdays. More or less it means ‘market of thieves’. You should take this quite literally and keep an eye on your wallet .

Fleamarket ‘Feira da Ladra’ in Lisbon & ceramics shop ‘Armazem das Caldas‘ 2022 (worth a visit!)

If you are looking for buying ‘opportunities’, or things that fell of a lorry, make sure you go there early, cause like on all flea markets, the good stuff is sold first.

Lisbon Shopping Feira da Ladra

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon: famous fleamarket

Don’t be afraid to negotiate the price. It’s part of the game and if you don’t you’ll pay far too much. The market is held every Tuesday and Saturday, from dawn to dusk.

Lisbon Shopping Feira da Ladra woman

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon: famous fleamarket

This nice Portuguese lady speaks French and English. Good stuff!

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon: famous fleamarket, January 2019

Alberto Gourgel , designer & Margarethe de Vrieze

Dogs on Feira de Ladra Lisbon flea market

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon: famous fleamarket

December in Lisbon: 18 degrees and these dogs wear hand-knitted sweaters 😉 More about Dogs in Lisbon

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Esta e do Ronaldo (‘This one is Ronaldo’s’)  and ‘this one is Eusebio’s’.

Cristiano Ronaldo & underwear

Maybe Portugal’s famous soccer star and sexy sportsman Cristiano Ronaldo has swapped his hotpants here for something more erotical than Armani’s underwear 😉

Feira da Ladra Lisbon Michael Jackson March10

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon: famous fleamarket

Michael Jackson‘s bestselling album of all time, ‘Thriller’. Price 50 euro, but you can always try to negotiate 😉

Feira da Ladra legendary market Lisbon Michael Jackson thriller album

‘Feira da Ladra’ in Alfama Lisbon:

Fleamarket with lots of second hand stuff: it’s always fun to stroll around 🙂

Friend and tourist guide Josephine Lucassen & children Frederico and Alicia, February 2016

For a small fee anyone who wants can offer his stuff on this market.

Fleamarket Feira da Ladra Lisbon: Loek Polack & Ans de Graaf 🙂

Fleamarket easy to reach by tram 28

The best way to enter Feira de Ladra is through the arch ‘Arco de São Vicente’ where tram 28 stops.

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Feira da Ladra and the nearby National Pantheon

Important Portugese personalities are buried in the National Pantheon , like f.e. Amalia Rodrigues, the famous fado singer.

Cafe/terrace ‘O Panteao’ near the fleamarket June 2018

Popular restaurant with a sunny terrace near the fleamarket ‘O Panteao’ : cheap and good!

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Breathtaking views Lisbon: Art Center ‘Casa da Cerca’, unique location & ferry trip

​Contemporary Art Center ‘Casa da Cerca‘ is located at the south side of the river Tagus.  Views on downtown Lisbon and the 25 April Bridge are amazing!

Superb Lisbon city views! 🙂 Garden Art Center ‘Casa da Cerca‘, Lisbon, February 2019 & tourist guide Josephine Lucassen. YouTube

How to get there?

Take the ferry from Lisbons’ Cais do Sodré (every 10 minutes, weekend every 20 min.) to  Cacilhas,  a 10 min trip. (Return ticket : cheap).  YouTube Ferry ride

Time table ferry from Lisbon Cais do Sodre to area Cacilhas and vice versa

Cais do Ginjal , Cacilhas Lisbon, February 2019

As you get off the ferry,  it takes about 15 minutes to walk along the river (Cais do Ginjal)  to reach the elevator, after passing lots of ruinous warehouses (could be a place for a movie set…!), and a few restaurants, both worth a visit 🙂  : Atire-te ao Rio and Ponto Final.

Picture: Margaret Schöttelndreier. July 2019

The elevator (elevador ‘da Boca da Venta‘, mouth of the wind) is convenient and free.

Magnificent view of the 25 April bridge, Cristo Rei (Christ the King statue), the city of Lisbon and the river Tagus .

View 25 April bridge. Picture: Margaret Schöttelndreier, July 2019

Former palace Casa da Cerca : art gallery, botanical garden & small cafetaria.

There are several exhibition spaces, a patio gallery, a cistern, a wonderful sculpture park, a chapel and a Botanical Garden – which, separately or jointly, present a regular program of individual, collective or thematic exhibitions.

Former palace Casa da Cerca & contemporary Art Center Lisbon, February 2019: tourist guide Portugal Josephine Lucassen

The former Cerca Palace is considered to be the most characteristic example of civil architecture from the 18th century, constructed between the 17th and the 18th century, with Baroque and Romantic influences, being restored in the end of the 20th century.

Art center Casa da Cerca Lisbon & tourist guide Portugal Josephine Lucassen, February 2019

February 2019: exhibition ‘O futuro do Passado’ (‘the future of the past’): Portuguese artists  Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Ana Jotta, Jorge Queiroz & poet Matilde Campilho

Eduardo Mota digitalizou “Le Saut du Lapin” de Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.

Wonderful! Source: Wikipedia

The property was acquired by the City Council in 1988. Refurbished and adapted to the expository purposes for which it was intended, opened to the public in 1993 as a Center for Contemporary art. The first exhibition focused on a core of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso’s work.

Website  YouTube Casa da Cerca

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Art center Casa da Cerca & garden. Picture: Margaret Schöttelndreier, July 2019
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Casa da Cerca, Rua da Cerca, 2800-050 Almada, Lisbon

Exhibitions, cafetaria & lovely botanical garden ‘O Chão das Artes’  (‘floor of the arts’): Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm

Center for Documentation and Research Mestre Rogério Ribeiro:
Tuesday to Friday from 10h to 12h30 and from 14h to 17h

Art Center Casa da Cerca Lisbon & ladies room 😉 😉 , February 2019

Facebook & news about upcoming expositions

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Breathtaking views Lisbon: Restaurant ‘Ponto Final’ & short ferry trip river Tagus

The south bank of the river Tagus is my favorite place in Lisbon: views on downtown Lisbon and the 25 April Bridge are amazing!

Riverfront terrace restaurant ‘Ponto Final’, Cacilhas, amazing view downtown Lisbon. September 2017

Take the ferry from Lisbons’ Cais do Sodré (every 10 minutes, weekend every 20 min.) to the other side of the river Tagus: Cacilhas,  a 10 min trip. (Return ticket : cheap)

Time table ferry from Lisbon Cais do Sodre to area Cacihas and vice versa

As you get off the ferry,  it takes about 15 minutes to walk along the river to Restaurant ‘Ponto Final’, after passing lots of ruinous warehouses.

Abandoned and ruinous warehouses, Cacilhas (Almada), Lisbon

Picture: Svetlana Borodina

Cacilhas used to be a bustling area for a long long time when shipping and fishing were still major economic activities in Portugal.

Abandoned and ruinous warehouses, Cacilhas (Almada), Lisbon

Picture: Edith Bering, February 16, 2022

Reasonable prices

You will love the typical Portuguese menu. Fish, meat and great Portuguese wines.

Restaurant Ponto Final Lisbon, September 2019

Great location

€25/30 a person incl. wine. Quite reasonable prices if you consider the view! If you’re not in the mood for food, just relax, order a coffee or a glass of wine (bottle from € 7.50) and enjoy the scenery.

Restaurant ‘Ponto Final’ & lunch with friends Svetlana and Sergy Borodin from Prague

We enjoyed olives, ripened cheese from Alentejo, cod salad with chick-pea, octopus salad, dogfish soup, a delicious bottle of restaurant Ponto Final’s housewine, sweet rice and a custard dessert.

Bill for 3 persons  € 58.50.

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Restaurant ‘Ponto Final’ Lisbon May 2015: Sophie Lever and Jurre Schöttelndreier

Very good Portuguese cuisine. Especialidade da Casa (specialty of the house): arroz de Tamboril (rice with monkfish), Entrecosto Assado no Forno (roasted ribs) and Peixe Fresco Grelhado (grilled fresh fish). The wine list has a quality assortment of Portuguese wines.

Great lunch in Restaurant Ponto Final, Lisbon together with Edith Bering and Anita van Zadelhoff, February 16, 2022

Romantic location

Restaurant ‘Ponto Final’ is a perfect location for a great dinner overlooking Lisbon by night. Make sure that you book a table outside in advance.

Restaurant ‘Atira-te ao Rio’, splendid view old town Lisbon

In caserestaurant ‘Ponto Final’ is closed, the neighbor restaurant ‘Atira-te ao Rio’, Portuguese and international cuisine, is also a great place to enjoy your lunch or dinner!  🙂

Cacilhas Lisbon view Restaurant Atira-te-ao-rio’ and Cristo Rei statue

Cacilhas and the famous Cristo Rei statue

The elevator to reach the Cristo Rei statue (free) is situated quite close to restaurant Ponto Final .

Svetlana & Sergy from Prague

Stunning views! Close to the elevator.

Several possibilites how to travel to the Cristo Rei Monument

Ferry-Lisbon Cacilhas

Ferry from Cais do Sodre , Lisbon to Cacilhas, the other side of the river Tagus

Time table ferry from Lisbon Cais do Sodre to area Cacilhas and vice versa

During winter season in Lisbon this place is also worth a visit 🙂 !  But it can be rather cold and very windy!

Wintertime Sunset video.

Cristo Rei Statue, Cacilhas, Lisbon

The 82m (270ft) high pedestal (by elevator). This enormous monument is built in 1959 in thanks to God for having spared Portugal during World War II, inspired by the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro. ‘God opens his arms to the city’.

Restaurant Ponto Final February 16, 2022 : Anita van Zadelhoff, lovely dog Nelson 😉 and Edith Bering

You can go back to the Cacilhas ferry terminal by bus # 101.

Lunch July 3, 2021, friend Margriet de Vrieze & delicious pataniscos de bacalhau (salt codfish cakes, recipe in English) 🙂

Restaurant Ponto Final, Cacilhas Cais Ginjal 72, Cacilhas / Almada,

Phone: (00351)  936 869 031 (WhatsApp also). Mail:  pontofinalrest@gmail.com.       Facebook

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Beautiful Avenida da Liberdade Lisbon, luxury brands & Prada’s window dressing

Beautiful Avenida da Liberdade (Liberty Avenue) is located between Restauradores Square and Marquis of Pombal Square. The Avenue was built between 1879 and 1882.

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Avenida da Liberdade Lisbon

This broad boulevard, with a pedestrianised centre in the middle, is the Portuguese equivalent of the Champs Elysees.

Lisbon shopping Avenida da Liberdade trees

Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon

It’s a lovely avenue to wander down, with cafes where you can take a break.

Lisbon Shopping Avenida da Liberdade Luis Vuitton boutique

Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon

If you are looking for luxury international brands you will find here f.i. Luis Vuitton, Emporio Armani and Escada fashionable boutiques.

Shopping in Lisbon Avenida da Liberdade

Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon

Be prepared: the prices are the same as in any of these shops in London or Paris.

Avenida da Liberdade Lisbon new Prada shop 2010

PRADA boutique Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon

Prada opened a store in Lisbon in 2010 . It was a long search for the location, because Miuccia Prada did not want just any shop. It eventually became a building on the Avenida de Liberdade, one of Lisbon’s main shopping streets.

Avenida da Liberdade, & autumn, September 2021

Many of the original buildings of the avenue have been replaced in the last decades by tall offices and hotel buildings. Nowadays it boasts several interesting buildings that reflect Portuguese architecture from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries and the Moorish influence.

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The Lisbon Marathon, very popular & good looking athletic runners

The Lisbon International Marathon is one of Europe’s most popular, attracting big names to the professional race and thousands to run for charity or for the sense of achievement it offers.

Jurre Schöttelndreier Marathon Lisbon 2009

Lisbon Marathon December 6, 2009.

Finish Estadio 1° de Maio. Jurre Schöttelndreier from Holland, finishing time: 3:41!

Marathon Lisbon December 2008 2 beautiful Rumanian boys

Get yourself fit for the  Lisbon Marathon!

Or catch some athletic and very good looking jubilant runners 🙂

Dan Lixandru (l) and his friend, from Bucharest, Rumania, December 2008, crossing the finishing line at Praça do Comércio (Commerce Square).

Lisbon Marathon December 2008 start Praca do Comercio

Photo: Marcelino de Almeida

Lisbon marathon website (and video). The Marathon continues being a great popular success of participation. To run the Lisbon Marathon is not only to take part in a great race but also a great chance of a better knowledge of the centenary city of Lisbon.

Lisbon Marathon December 2008 good looking athletic runner

Photo: Marcelino de Almeida

Lisbon Marathon December 2006 runners

Photo: Marcelino de Almeida

The Half Marathon (March 22, 2010) is a complementary race of the Lisbon Marathon for all those which do not have an adequate preparation for the mythical 42 kilometres and do not want to miss the event. The race starts in Almada on the south side of the 25 de Abril bridge and there’s also a mini-marathon.

The Lisbon Marathon December 2008 some spectators

Some spectators… photo Marcelino de Almeida

The Lisbon Marathon December 2008 runners (woman)

Of course there are also very good looking athletic women who run the marathon ….Photo: Marcelino de Almeida

The Lisbon Marathon December 2008 sport massage

Photo: Marcelino de Almeida

 Register online:  October 17, 2021