Second time in 10 years, and made sure we left lots of things unseen, in order to come back soon, loved the place..

The views…

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The azulejos covered frontages…

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the cable car…

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..celebrating the 40 years of the soft « Carnation Revolution », were Salazar’s « Estado Novo »‘s dictatorship state was put down peacefully by the army and the people, carnation flowers were put at the end of the rifles by army officers. Nice to know that at a time when Chile was drowning into hideous dictatorship, somewhere else in the world, people were coming out of it. Some iconic pictures of that revolution were exhibited in various squares in town

 

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WE3 in Barrio alto

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