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10 years of Urban Sketchers Portugal

I saw flashbacks from the 2011 Lisbon Symposium, which, at a distance, looked really tiny. I saw these past ten years that changed my life completely, and I saw the main role that the urban sketchers had in that change!

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The return of the prodigal sun

Nearly a hundred sketches, done by over fifty authors, revisiting the original hundred locations depicted by Alfredo Roque Gameiro settled in his native town to pay him homage.

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Rua do Século (antiga Rua Formosa)

From the Alto da Cotovia, many stories have rolled down the hill – a cleptomaniac arsonist, doomed construction sites, an underground water reservoir that still exists to this date, with an unconspicuous underground path to São Pedro de Alcântara and branching out in all directions of the hill of the Jesuits.

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No Largo da Achada

In Largo da Achada you can find one of the dozens of casas de ressalto existing in the city. These are residential buildings, mostly hailing from the 15th century, with overhanging timber-framed floors, leaning over streets and alleys. A clever way of expanding your real estate, which finds its counterpart in the modern marquises. Clever, but dangerous.

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O Rossio

There are many words for square in the Portuguese language, each with a specific meaning, or maybe not so much  – praça, largo, terreiro, adro… It so happens that rossio is just another one, as there are several rossios around the country, but there is one which people simply call Rossio.

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