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Stairway, Santo Amaro Chapel

Stairway, Santo Amaro Chapel
“Stairway, Santo Amaro Chapel” — A stairway leads to a door at the Santo Amaro Chapel, Lisbon

This is another photograph from Lisbon’s Santo Amaro Chapel, a very old structure near the waterfront and almost beneath the April 25 Bridge (“Ponte 25 de Abril“). That is the one that looks very similar to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. After passing beneath the bridge’s north end, we walked a little further west, then climbed steps to this location. It is one of the better viewpoints of the bridge, with a wide plaza open to that view.

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The Back Door

The Back Door
The rear entrance to a local market.

The Back Door. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

The rear entrance to a local market.

So, can we imagine that this is the, uh, “urban wilderness?” It does contains some relatively very wild areas, and there is wildlife of a sort. If you look around carefully enough at the right time you can find a degree of solitude.

This is a back entrance to a grocery store, photographed across a deserted parking lot. Someone has abandoned their cart next to the door, perhaps expecting the store employees to discover it there and reclaim it.


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