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“I’m nothing / I’ll never be anything / I am not able to wish being anything / Apart from this, I have in me all the dreams of the world.” In this way the unforgettable Tabacaria begins (in English Tobacco Shop) the famous eight-page poem by Alvaro de Campos. De Campos was a naval architect [...]

In an old television documentary, Mr. Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz, better known as Compay Segundo, one of the most respected Cuban musicians and composers of the last century, recalls, already a nonagenarian, smoking a cigarette on the porch of his home in Havana and how he started smoking. He must have had been about six [...]

The Chiado Museum presents the retrospective exhibition 30 years of the AICA/MC Visual Arts Award until the 22nd of January 2012. A quick glance of Portuguese art, which shows the work of prominent artists who have participated over the years in the exhibitions organized to grant the award, one of the most prominent and ancient [...]

The Centre of Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation presents, until the 9th of October, an interesting monographic retrospective of the Portuguese contemporary artist João Penalva. The exhibition is the biggest one carried out on his work and it shows interesting aspects of his work which is made in different fields, such as painting, film [...]

We’re not here to do a treaty on bibliophile (the branch of knowledge dealing with beautiful, unique, rare or impossible books), but we dare to recommend travelers passing through Lisbon to come close to the  temple that is the Museo Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon. If you can, stop and admire the copy of [...]