Palaces

old palaces and attractive churches, making a lively Machado de Castro — people return to the city centre scene, colourful and vivacious, but tinged with me- and sit on the busy terraces of the typical cats; in Iancholy. Rossio. A particularly interesting area of the city in its structu- A part of the city with a well-defined personality is the re and human appeal is the district known as «Baixa» so—called «Chiado» which includes the largo of this or the part lying between the popular squares of Ros- name, the largo named after Camoes, where the sta. sic and Comércio whose main roadway is the Rue tue of the author of Os Lusledas stands, designed by Augusta. Here are the banks and big businesses. The- Victor Bastos erected in 1867, the Rue do Game and re are also many bars, and tourists stroll about in a the Rua Garret, named after the Portuguese authorof leisurely fashion, looking here and there, at every this inspiring line: hour of the day. After looking in fascination at the river and admiring A petrie é patria jé; nos somos homem/ the architectural harmony of the Comércio Square, which has the most balanced proportions and is the These last two streets — perhaps the most tradl' largest in Europe, facing the Tagus with the tionally elegant in Lisbon — are filled with lUXU'Y equestrian statue of José l in the centre, designed by shops, prestigious book shops, tea rooms and a “a”