Rua Garrett

Museus e Espaços Culturais / Chiado

  • ©Gonçalo Castelo Soares

It is in Rua Garrett that theatre "comes alive" through the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Teatro São Luiz and the Teatro da Trindade.

Also located here is the first Bertrand Bookstore, founded in 1732, the Grémio Literário do Chiado, and the A Brasileira café, with the famous statue of Fernando Pessoa, where once upon a time big names of the 20th century Portuguese culture would gather.

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Chiado

It is considered to be one of the trendiest neighbourhoods in Lisbon today, but the truth is that Chiado has never gone out of fashion. Its charm was well evidenced by great figures of the arts and literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Eça de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa, who used to frequent this area in a Lisbon of other times and referred to it in their works.