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Literary Lisbon

Duration: 2h
Languages: Spanish
Guru: Andoni
Quality Verified Registered on November 13, 2019

Hi there! My name is Andoni. I am an official tour guide and professor of Geography and History. I have been guiding travelers from all over the world since 2013. I have worked in different cities in Europe, such as Madrid, Dublin, Lisbon, and now Valencia. In all these years, I have guided more than 50,000 people! For me, guiding is more than a job: it is my passion! Something that you will discover from minute one of the tour.

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  • Free booking and cancellation
    Free payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free

Tour description

Together we are going to get to know the most important authors of the Lisbon and Portuguese letters: Saramago, Pessoa, Camões and Eça de Queiroz, among others. In addition, we will also know the stories and adventures of great foreign authors who passed through these lands, such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Lord Byron or Hans Christian Andersen. We will discover several old literary cafes, and of course, we will also know some of the most emblematic bookstores in the city, in fact ... Did you know that in Lisbon there is the oldest bookstore in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records? And all this with many anecdotes, joy, good humor and salt shaker. Come with me to know the literary secrets of the city of light and the Tagus, a city that inspires just by seeing it. What will we see? - Saramago Foundation: life and work of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner - Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms - Luís Vaz de Camões - The old bookstores in Lisbon - Chiado and Barrio Alto - Cervantes and Lope de Vega in Lisbon - The old literary cafes - Lord Byron and Hans Christian Andersen - Father Vieira and Portuguese humanism All this and much more ...

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  • Meeting point:
    Rua dos Bacalhoeiros 14C 1100070 Lisb...
    Rua dos Bacalhoeiros 14C 1100070 Lisboa Portugal
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    In front of the Saramago Foundation (casa dos bicos)

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