Lisbon.com is an ode to the city. A space where people and places meet, where stories take place in the city of water and light. Above all, it is our way of capturing that subtle Lisbon feeling.

It is the brightness of the Tejo on a lazy Saturday stroll. The silence before Fado. The quiet bloom of the Jacarandas. Reading a book in Chiado. The sunset from Adamastor. Dancing your thoughts away in Cais do Sodre. The serene beauty of Parque Eduardo VII. The tranquillity of Jardim das Amoreiras. The sunrise reflected on the Arco de Rua Augusta.

We share the stories of those who feel a connection to Lisbon. People from different places, who, in their hearts, feel Lisbon is their city. With love, from those who cherish Lisbon as their own.

Joanna Hecker·
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City Inside Out

Lisbon can seem like a city turned inside-out. Esplanadas and kiosks and gardens teem with neighbors who swing by briefly or stay for hours – or who come intending to swing by briefly, and end up staying for hours as if held in place by magnetic force. We flow past...
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Joanna Hecker·
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Why Learn Portuguese?

Dear fellow immigrants, expats, itinerant entrepreneurs, global nomads of all kinds. Over the holidays I attended a dinner party, and I met a handful of the many newcomers to Lisbon. One otherwise nice, lovely man told me about his plans to buy a house and settle in Lisbon, and he...
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Joanna Hecker·
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Praça das Flores

Ask for directions to Jardim Fialho de Almeida, and even the most die-hard Lisboeta won’t know what to tell you. With all due respect to that august republican writer of the turn of the twentieth century, this lush and lopsided little rectangular park is better known, and much beloved, as...
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Tony Menezes·
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It was meant to be

At seventy-something years of age, retired and settled in Oeiras for the last twenty years, I have had the gift of time to look back on my life to figure out why and how it came to be. My love affair with Portugal and its culture goes back to my...
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Tom Dobbels·
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There Are No Coincidences

Sometimes in life you just know when a chapter ends. After working from home for nearly a year in panicky Brussels, I decided it was finally time to move to a new place. Like a lost Belgian sailor looking for new shores, I knew I wanted to live near the...
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Joana Hartmann·
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My Lisbon Pearls

Maybe because I have been immersed in this city for so long – practically my entire life – I realize that it is not easy for me to write about Lisbon. Being Portuguese yet feeling “not entirely” Portuguese because of my mixed family roots, intertwining Brazilian, Swiss and Hungarian blood and...
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Joanna Hecker·
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Lisbon: Where do we begin?

As is the case with many cities, there are many Lisbons, and the Lisbon you get depends upon who you are. There are some things we all share. You’ll know some of these things, and maybe they are among the reasons you are here – the reasons you came, or the...
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Anel Imanbay·
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Life, Love, Lisbon!

My journey with Lisbon began long before I visited this beautiful city. While studying in university, I remember reading a captivating book called “The Night in Lisbon” by Erich Maria Remarque. Later in my life, I would witness myself walking in those narrow streets that Remarque so beautifully described and...
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The Editors·
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What is Lisbon.com?

Lisbon.com is an ode to the city. A space where people and places intersect, allowing everyone to create their own stories in this city of water and light. Above all, Lisbon.com is our way of capturing that subtle Lisbon feeling. It’s the brightness of the Tejo on a lazy Saturday...
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