I know. Laundry hanging above urban homes in foreign cities is more than a bit of a cliche. I’ll try to minimize it, but sometimes I cannot resist. Here it is really more about the wild range of colors in the photograph, from that laundry to the colorful overhead streamers above the lane, and the contrast with the other less-colorful surroundings.
The photograph is from Alfama, the historic core of old Lisbon. As the city expanded, it became home to poorer residents, and that is still true to some extent — though there certainly seems to be some newer stuff happening around the edges. The area is characterized by very narrow, twisting streets paved with cobblestones and by steep slopes.
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