Vila Berta, in Graça, became a phenomenon, a few years back, by bringing to the festivities an audience that wasn’t used to partake in them, and by becoming one of the most known hubs of the fest in the city.

The challenge was to sketch far and below from a skyscraper. But conventional tall buildings are scarce in this capital city, and not very suitable places to sketch from, so I opted to lead the participants to one of Lisboa’s own alternative skyscrapers – the Nossa Senhora do Monte vantage point.

For nearly a week, a few hundreds of tango enthusiasts from all over the world stormed the glorious setting of the Voz do Operário great hall to attend the annual International Lisbon Tango Festival.