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Travessa de Sâo Miguel

Travessa de Sâo Miguel
“Travessa de Sâo Miguel” — Narrow streets and tall buildings in Lisbon’s Alfama district.

This is another photograph from the Alfama district of Lisbon. The neighborhood is the original center of historic Lisbon, though it later became home to lower income people. It escaped the destruction from the 18th-century earthquake that leveled large portions of the city, so it retains the narrow lanes, steep hills, and older buildings of an earlier era.

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