The Rough Guide to Portugal

Museu de Artes Decorativas Portugesas
Largo das Portas do Sol 2 • Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–5pm • €4 •
218 814 600,
fress.pt • Tram #28
Inside a seventeenth-century mansion, the lovely Museu de Artes Decorativas Portugesas displays what was once the private collection of banker Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva, who offered it to the nation in 1953. Here, you can see some of the best examples of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century applied arts in the country. Highlights include a stunning sixteenth-century tapestry depicting a parade of giraffes, beautiful carpets from Arraiolos in the Alentejo, and oriental quilts that

The easiest place to start a wander around the Alfama is along the road below the Sé, which becomes Rua de São João de Praça, and later Rua de São Pedro

The Alfama
The Alfama is Lisbon’s oldest and most atmospheric quarter, a labyrinthine maze of narrow streets, steps and alleys wrapped round the steep lower slopes of the Moorish castle.

festa nas bancadas (party on the terraces)

Mini Bar, Lisbon. Portuguese cuisine for the twenty-first century and beyond.

prato do dia (dish of the day)