Chiado Archives - Neighbourly Lisbon

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso exhibition in Lisbon's Museum of Contemporary Art

Last call for Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso exhibition – extended opening hours

You only have a few days left to visit the exhibition “Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso / Porto Lisboa / 1916-2016”, taking place at Lisbon’s Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC. Inaugurated in January and open until February 26, this exhibition gathers dozens of paintings by Amadeo…

How to spend a wonderful day in my adopted city

by Graziela Sousa The fact I came from Porto to study in Lisbon 13 years ago, turned me into a local with a touristy eye. I can see the specialness of the city and try to seize it as much as I can. Let’s take…

Christmas lights cheer up Lisbon

It is an old tradition and every year, by this time, announces that Christmas is coming to town. Christmas lights in Baixa neighbourhood will light up tomorrow, Saturday, at 18:00, making every street more colorful. Millions of LED lights will brighten the city until early…

The house of Portuguese contemporary art – MNAC

Lisbon’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a rich collection of works of art from the second half of the 19th century until today. There you can find most of the iconic artists that belong to the history of Portuguese art, from the emergence of Romanticism,…

Teatro São Carlos – Lisbon’s opera house

It is Lisbon’s opera house. Teatro Nacional de São Carlos was inaugurated on the 30th of June 1793, by Queen Mary I, in Largo de São Carlos and it was and still is the sole Lisbon theater that presents opera shows and symphonic concerts only.…

Casa Pereira – coffee aficionados heaven

Every town has its timeless shops, that have been around for ages, that you remember from your childhood and where you can return form time to time. Casa Pereira, a Lisbon shop that sells mainly coffee beans but also tea, biscuits, Porto wine, chocolates, cookies…

Free movies at Cinema Ideal

Cinema Ideal is celebrating yet another year and from today until the 31st of August there will be 21 movie sessions for free. During a whole week about 20 movies will be exhibited on this little cinema theatre near Chiado and all you have to…