Campo de Ourique Market (Lisbon)

Advantages: Sightseeings starts at 3 Euros a day
Disadvantages: Avoid rush hours!

...", restaurants and Bars are many and you may choose from different prices, you can also look for restaurants with live singed "FADO" the typical portuguese song style (specially for Lisboa and Coimbra). Back to the public transports you can look at Carris web site, for the electric 28 (an old electric) that goes from Martim Moniz to Campo de Ourique (Prazeres), it´s a very good journey and if you are in Rossio you can take the bus 9 to Campo de Ourique and at the end you'll have the 28's electric stop, from there will take you about 40 minutes to Martim Moniz and on the way you'll see a lot from the old Lisboa, including a bit of Bairro Alto, Mouraria, and the Castelo de São Jorge area (if you have a one day ticket you can leave there and go to the "Castelo" - Great sightseeing place). You can also go by electric (but this time a modern one... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty to see, good food, the trams, nice people
Disadvantages: Can't think of any, unless you count having a really odd-sounding language!

...that since Portugal isn’t a major player, they keep all the ‘best stuff’ for the home market, and to my mind this holds true. We had some excellent reds from the Alentejo region inland north of the Algarve, especially the Marquês de Borba and even Chardonnays from the Porto region. Many countries have speciality restaurants based on their old colonial activity. Amsterdam has its Indonesian, Paris its Vietnamese and Lisbon has Brazilian (Brasileiro). These offer an interesting alternative to southern European fare and we dined one evening at ‘Comida do Santo’ – Saint’s Food (Well if you’ve got it, flaunt it, as they say). As you can imagine, this is a more fiery and tropical affair than Portuguese cuisine, but anyone used to a late-night ‘Ruby Murray’ after eight pints won’t be daunted. They do a mean pre-dinner cocktail using cane brandy... Read review

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...I'm just updating this because I'm aware that this is a pitifully small opinion. There isn't actually too much more that I could expound on the market, except to say that it was full of housewives who were laughing and joking in the way that they show them doing on tv adverts, and thoroughly enjoying the atmosphere of gossiping with their friends. This isn't exactly a tourist market, but as I explain below, there is a little trick up it's sleeve that makes it different... *********** Original Op. *********** The Italians have a wonderful language that makes anything sound truly magical. Campo de' Fiori means "Field of Flowers". Definitely magical, although not altogether accurate. There is no field of flowers here, well, not any more. What you do have is a bustling and thriving, vibrantly colourful market. Just south... Read review

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