South Africans are known to be great fans of Portuguese food and many visitors to Lisbon will think they’ve died and gone to gastronomic heaven.
For a city lacking in WOW!- scale tourist attractions , Lisbon is surprisingly popular and ranks among the most visited destinations in southern Europe with some 30 million passengers passing annually through Humberto Delgado Airport. While large numbers of people travel to Lisbon each year for business – it’s a major manufacturing, finance and technology hub as well as one of the busiest container seaports on the continent – about 4.5 million visitors go to the Portuguese capital on holiday.
Lisbon has always been a working city yet it is a surprisingly beautiful one, something that attests to the wealth, taste and industry of its rulers and residents down the centuries. It owes that wealth primarily to the sea and the city celebrates its place in seafaring history at every turn. While Lisbon has retained a lot of its commercial dynamism, life is anything but a hither-and-yon scurry for the Euro. The city is affordable and its citizens are surprisingly relaxed considering the vast quantities of industrial-strength coffee they consume.1) Noon: Out of the starting blocks
Heed their advice: asking for directions on the street will, more often than not, be a fruitless and frustrating experience. The Tagus splits the capital in two and is spanned at its mouth by the Ponte 25 de Abril and at its broadest part by the Vasco da Gama bridge which, at 17km, is the longest in Europe.
According to the Eyewitness Travel guide to the city, “eating venues in Lisbon come in all shapes and sizes, and at all price levels.or tavern, often just a room with half-a-dozen tables presided over by a husband-and-wife team.are often frequented by locals and professionals … which is a good indication of quality food.”
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