The Social Action Services of the NOVA University Lisbon organize the Lisbon Walks, guided tours with the aim of making known "a different city from the one we see in our daily lives".
These tours, which will take place four times during the second semester, will be on Saturday and last three hours, accompanied by Ana Pinto, a researcher at NOVA FCSH. The participation, for elements of the NOVA community, has the cost of five euros.
In the tour of this day, the theme is "Lisbon as city of the World".
In the sixteenth century Lisbon was one of the biggest and most important cities in the world. This tour will be centered in Belém neighbourhood and it will drive you to the heritage that commemorates Lisbon as a global city. We will speak about the Tagus river, the main entrance of the world in Lisbon, we will look to the Belém’s heritage as a symbol of Lisbon’s empowerment and its glory, but also as a testimony of a global economy, a place of interconnected histories, and one of the best examples persevered of genuine Portuguese decorative style.
For more information, themes of the various tours and to subscribe, see the link.