The Historic Traveller Magazine no.1

INSPIRATION | LISBON
CULTURE
An entire floor of the National Museum
of Ancient Art is currently closed. It will,
however, be reopening in May with
around 200 new Portuguese works,
rarely seen before.
Temporary exhibitions to check out this
year include the Masaveu Collection,
a set of 60 works from great Spanish
masters (El Greco, Goya and Sorolla to
name a few) and the stunning View of
Via di Ripetta in Rome by Italian urban
landscape painter Bernardo Bellotto.
One thing the tourist guides don’t
tell you is that just next door to the
legendary museum is an 18th century
palace which doubles as a small
charming boutique hotel. Book a night
at As Janelas Verdes to properly savour
its gentle, romantic atmosphere.
Once the largest church in the capital,
the Carmo Convent was left devastated
in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The
roofless nave is now open to the sky
and the main altar is an archaeological
museum.
As Janelas Verdes
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Sandra, founder of the cultural travel
blog Tripper and writer of two Lisbon
travel guides, says Lisbon ‘adopted’ her
seventeen years ago. One of her favourite
places in the city is the romantic gothic
ruins - she advises to watch out for the
‘Carmo Cat’; the monument’s resident
feline, on your visit.
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