A community portal about Lisbon with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is the seat of the district of Lisbon and capital of Região Lisboa. Lisbon municipality...
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A community portal about Lisbon with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is the seat of the district of Lisbon and capital of Região Lisboa. Lisbon municipality has a population of 564,477, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2,800,000 inhabitants, the largest urban aglomeration of Portugal. Lisbon Region is the wealthiest region in Portugal and it is well above the European Union's per capita GDP average.
A grand palace in a lush setting
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The Pestana Carlton Palace is a 19th-century creamy white and gold building set in lush gardens and parkland. Classified as a National Monument, the hotel is all marble, gilded surfaces and chandeliers. Although thoroughly elegant and maintaining a gracious mien, the hotel has skillfully blended all 21th-century conveniences into its skillful and gracious brand of hospitality.
The guest rooms continue the... Read Full Story
By Bill Bergfeld
Agel France is open for business! The European Union General Manager Dr. William Amzallag made the official announcement of the opening at the Portugal Grand Opening and European Union Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Friday, May 2nd. Over 1,000 attending team members, including 30 team members from France, met the announcement with cheers.
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All products available in the EU market are available in France. This includes all of Agel’s products, excluding HRT... Read Full Story
Instead of my rants of the past few days, over the next few days, I'm going to tackle a few of the places I went that I found particularly interesting or feel like I have something new and/or insightful to say about them. I'll start with Lisbon, Portugal! There's something about Lisbon that I didn't realize while I was there. But after I started going to other places and now that I've been home for a while and have had time to reflect, I've decided that Lisbon, for a big capital city, has... Read Full Story
Lisbon,PortugalLisbon's most attractive square, also one of Europ's most beautiful squares.As a typical example of the Pombal style, the square has classcial, uniform arcading on three sides. They were executed between 1755 and 1873.The St. Bento Palace. The building now the seat of the Republican Parliament.The old caliginous street. There thousand street like this in Lisbon.The Sao Jorge castle. It was built in the 5th century.Rossio, the most important square in the Baixa quarter in the... Read Full Story
Sections Lisbon Travel GuideMapClimateSightsLisbon AccommodationsEating OutPractical InformationGetting AroundGetting ThereDay TripsBeachesShoppingNightlife and EntertainmentInternet CafesPhoto Gallery[Add Section] City map View Enlargement Tip Download our Lisbon guide as PDF Lisbon Travel Guide [edit this] el_ctrico photo by: Lu_s E.S.M. [Change image] | [Upload image] Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, is a fascinating city of old-fashioned and funky art, charming architecture, and... Read Full Story
