Tram 28 tour<\/a><\/p>\nOne of the interesting things we learned is that there is a bank at the corner of Rua da Conceicao and R. Dos Correeiros that starting building an underground parking garage and ran into dozens of roman artifacts and structures.\u00a0 The government only allowed a portion of the underground parking to be built, and the bank had to preserve the bulk of the ruins.\u00a0 They don’t advertise this, but according to our guide, every weekday on the hour they are required to give a tour of the underground site to anybody that walks in and asks for a visit.\u00a0 We will be checking this out in the next few days and will confirm.<\/p>\n
There is a building at the corner of Largo Madalena and Tv. do Almada where you can see they have incorporated former tombstones into the wall.\u00a0 These tombstones rose to the surface during the 1755 earthquake, and are from the Roman period.\u00a0 Without a guide we never would have noticed.<\/p>\n
Our guide also pointed out some stone support pieces in the Lisbon Cathedral that are from the Roman (first photo) and Visigoth (second photo) era.\u00a0 They pretty much used whatever they could find when they were rebuilding.<\/p>\n
Our tour ended at the Portas do Sol, which has a beautiful overlook of Alfama.\u00a0 Our guide advised the area had become a “freakshow” due to a lot of hustlers trying to con tourists out of a few Euros.\u00a0 One guy walked by holding some really ugly jewelery asking if we wanted any “bling bling”.\u00a0 Now I know what to get everybody as gifts!<\/p>\n
We ended the evening with dinner at Tagide, a beautiful restaurant overlooking the city and the Tagus River.\u00a0 The dinner was good, but they are much more slow paced than we are used to.\u00a0 We barely had a bottle of wine open before the first course arrived.\u00a0 I’m used to half the bottle being gone before that!\u00a0 The Grouper was to die for though, likely some of the best fish we’ve eaten in a long time, and that includes all of the fish we recently had in Hawaii!\u00a0 I think I annoyed the staff when I grabbed our wine bottle off the back table, but they need to be faster.\u00a0 An empty wine glass is one of the great sins in life!\u00a0 They have a Michelin “plate”.\u00a0 Maybe if they picked up the pace they might get a star?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the iconic things in Lisbon is the historic electric trams, Tram 28 in particular.\u00a0 These trams look a lot like cable cars, but they run on overhead electricity, and have been doing so since 1901.\u00a0 Before that they were pulled by horses. They are now major tourist attractions, but for people who live … <\/p>\n
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