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74 av. Almirante Reis, c. 1960 vs now 📷 This building has always caught my eye on Almirante Reis. At first glance, it looked to me like the façade had been lifted and preserved, but look more closely and something much stranger has happened. During the 1950s and 1960s, many of the small buildings from the early twentieth century along Avenida Almirante Reis were demolished and replaced by reinforced concrete blocks of six or seven storeys, combining apartments above with commercial spaces below. A municipal rule introduced in 1955 helped create the distinctive form seen here. New buildings could rise to seven floors, while their ground floors were set back by around 3.75 metres to create covered commercial arcades and more space for pedestrians. The former façade was not preserved intact. Its carved arches, columns, window surrounds and balcony were dismantled and rearranged as a narrow vertical panel within the new building. This is not conventional façadism, where you’d build directly behind the old façade, but an unusual example of architectural salvage, or spolia. Even more remarkably, it predates the widespread use of façade retention in Lisbon during the 1980s by around twenty years. Although the original house disappeared, I love the fact that they kept the façade in such an unusual way, dismantled and pieced together again like a puzzle. Have you seen similar examples? Drop me a DM or leave a comment. — Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Lisbon then and now, Avenida Almirante Reis, Anjos, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon modernisation, architectural salvage, spolia, façadism, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Av. Almirante Reis by @lisboaontem
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15 days ago
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Cinema Império, Alameda, 1952 📷 🇬🇧 The cinema opened on 24 May 1952. Its auditorium held 1,676 spectators across the stalls and two balconies, making it one of Lisbon’s great “cinema cathedrals” of the 1950s (swipe across to see the interior). The Café Império opened inside the complex in 1955. The cinema later hosted concerts, festivals and the pioneering Teatro Moderno de Lisboa before closing in 1983. It was converted into a place of worship in the 1990s, but the historic building, unlike many of Lisbon’s other great cinemas, has survived. And look at those trees. Seventy-four years later, they’re still growing 🌳 🇵🇹 O cinema foi inaugurado a 24 de maio de 1952. A sua enorme sala tinha capacidade para 1.676 espectadores, distribuídos pela plateia e por dois balcões, tornando-o numa das grandes “catedrais do cinema” da Lisboa dos anos 1950 (deslizem para o lado para ver o interior). O Café Império abriu no complexo em 1955. Mais tarde, o cinema acolheu concertos, festivais e o pioneiro Teatro Moderno de Lisboa, antes de encerrar em 1983. Foi transformado num local de culto na década de 1990, mas o edifício histórico, ao contrário de muitos dos grandes cinemas lisboetas, sobreviveu. E olhem para aquelas árvores. Setenta e quatro anos depois, continuam a crescer 🌳 — Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Cinema Império, Café Império, Lisbon cinemas, Lisbon architecture, modernist Lisbon, Alameda, Avenida Almirante Reis, Lisbon photography, archival photography, vintage photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Café Império by @lisboaontem
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a month ago
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Salão Lisboa, Mouraria, 1942 vs 2026 📷 With its name above the entrance and film posters on the façade, Salão Lisboa stands on the left of this busy street scene from 1942. Behind its modest frontage was a cinema with more than 500 seats, bringing the silver screen to the heart of Mouraria. Opened around 1915–1916, it became known as the ‘Cinema Piolho’. Cheap tickets and continuous programmes of two films made it a popular neighbourhood venue. The façade seen here followed a refurbishment in 1932, when the building’s original wooden roof was also replaced with an iron structure. Beside it stands the Arco do Marquês de Alegrete, framing the street beyond. The arch survived the demolition of the adjoining palace in 1946, but was itself demolished in 1961 as this part of Lisbon was reshaped into what we now know as Martim Moniz. Salão Lisboa continued screening films until the early 1970s, before being converted into a wholesale warehouse. Its later life included use as a clothing shop, another chapter in the history of a building once devoted to cinema. ────────── Salão Lisboa, Cinema Piolho, Mouraria Lisbon, Rua da Mouraria, Martim Moniz, Arco do Alegrete, historic Lisbon cinemas, Lisbon cinema history, Lisbon 1942, Lisbon then and now, old Lisbon photographs, Lisbon neighbourhood history, Portuguese cinema heritage, Lisbon street scenes, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Praça do Martim Moniz by @lisboaontem
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3 days ago
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Mercado da Praça da Figueira, c. 1906 vs 2026 📷 For 64 years, a vast covered market stood in the space we now know as Praça da Figueira. Opened in 1885, its iron and glass structure occupied approximately 8,000 square metres, with three halls and four domed corner pavilions. Much of today’s open square was filled by a single building. Trading here predated the covered market. Following Lisbon’s reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake, the square became an outdoor marketplace, supplying the city with fruit and vegetables. The new building brought that trade under a permanent roof, where shoppers could buy meat, fish, produce, flowers and tobacco. It also became a gathering place for celebrating Lisbon’s popular saints. Its disappearance was a deliberate planning decision. In 1947, the city council approved demolition as part of efforts to ease traffic congestion and modernise circulation through the Baixa. The surrounding area was also being reshaped, with clearances in the lower Mouraria intended to open wider routes through the city. Following the market’s demolition in 1949, the cleared square served as a car park for around two decades. In 1971, the equestrian statue of D. João I was inaugurated, establishing another familiar landmark on a site that had once been devoted to feeding the city. ────────── Praça da Figueira, Mercado da Praça da Figueira, Rua da Betesga, Baixa Pombalina, Lisbon history, Lisboa antiga, historic Lisbon markets, lost Lisbon buildings, Portuguese architecture, iron and glass architecture, Lisbon urban history, Lisbon demolition, Lisbon old photographs, Lisbon then and now, Lisbon heritage #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Praca Da Figueira Rossio by @lisboaontem
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7 days ago
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Cinema Rex, Rua da Palma, 1960 vs 2026 📷 Before it became the Teatro Laura Alves, this building was home to the Cinema Rex, one of Lisbon’s neighbourhood picture houses. The Rex opened in 1936 in a building previously occupied by the Federação Espírita Portuguesa. Beyond the films, it also hosted Carnival celebrations, New Year’s Eve parties and fado performances associated with the Retiro da Severa. In 1968, the cinema was transformed into the Teatro Laura Alves by theatre impresario Vasco Morgado, who named it after his wife, one of Portugal’s best-known actresses. The theatre opened that December, beginning another chapter in the building’s life. It closed in 1987, and a fire devastated the building in 2012. This photograph captures it decades earlier, with the REX signs above the entrance and film posters facing Rua da Palma. Does anyone remember going to the Rex or the Teatro Laura Alves? Let me know in the comments. Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Cinema Rex, Cine Rex, Teatro Laura Alves, Rua da Palma, Mouraria, Lisbon cinemas, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Rua De Palma 286 by @lisboaontem
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9 days ago
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📷 Rua da Palma, Mouraria, 1940 vs 2026 This view along Rua da Palma shows Mouraria before the area was transformed by the creation of Praça Martim Moniz. The tiled building on the right, marked “Policlínica Central da Guia,” helps identify the location. Beyond it stood the dense streets and buildings of old Mouraria. Clearance began in 1946, with major demolitions continuing through the late 1940s and into the 1950s. Streets, businesses and entire blocks disappeared to make way for the new square as I’ve covered in other posts. One survivor was part of the Cerca Fernandina, Lisbon’s medieval city wall, built mainly between 1373 and 1375. Hidden for centuries within later buildings, a section was exposed during the demolitions and preserved. You can see it in the present day photo. Much of the cityscape seen here has disappeared, but the steps roughly align and the building above helps you get your bearings. ⸻ Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Lisbon then and now, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon photography, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, vintage photography, analog photography, 35mm photography, film photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagephotography #lisbonphotography taken in Praça Martim Moniz, Lisboa by @lisboaontem
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11 days ago
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📷 Jardim da Cerca da Graça - date unknown No ‘then vs now’ comparison on this one as this view has been mostly obscured by buildings beneath Miradouro da Senhora do Monte where it’s photographed from. Jardim da Cerca da Graça feels like a long-established part of Lisbon, but it only opened to the public in 2015. The hillside’s history goes back much further. Beneath the Convento da Graça (top left of the image) lay its ‘cerca’, the enclosed grounds where the Augustinian community grew food and maintained orchards to supply the convent. This photograph shows the open slope below the church, with cultivated plots tucked between the surrounding buildings. Long before it was converted into the park we know today. Any guesses at when this is dated? Let me know in the comments. — Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Jardim da Cerca da Graça, Convento da Graça, Graça, Mouraria, Lisbon gardens, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon photography, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, vintage photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon vintagephotography lisbonphotography taken in Jardim da Cerca da Graça by @lisboaontem
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12 days ago
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🎥 Praça Martim Moniz, 1970 This 8mm archive film captures a very different Martim Moniz, when market stalls still occupied the open square beneath the hillside of Mouraria. The camera passes the Capela de Nossa Senhora da Saúde, one of the few historic buildings to survive the extensive demolition of the lower Mouraria from the 1940s onwards. With its temporary stalls, political displays, period cars and the Castelo de São Jorge visible above the rooftops, the footage offers such an interesting time capsule into everyday life in the square during the 1970s. — Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Martim Moniz, Mouraria, Praça Martim Moniz, 8mm archive film, Lisbon archive footage, Lisbon market, Nossa Senhora da Saúde, Lisbon streets, vintage film, historic footage, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #martimmoniz #mouraria #8mmfilm #oldlisbon taken in Praça Martim Moniz, Lisboa by @lisboaontem
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13 days ago
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📷 Praça Martim Moniz, c. 1947–1949 🇬🇧 This photo captures Praça Martim Moniz right in the middle of its transformation. From the 1940s, whole blocks of the lower Mouraria were demolished under the Estado Novo’s plans to modernise Lisbon. Dense historic neighbourhoods like this were considered overcrowded and unsanitary, while their narrow streets were increasingly seen as obstacles to traffic and progress. The Palácio dos Marqueses de Alegrete had already been demolished in 1946. The Igreja do Socorro, which featured in my last post, survived until 1949 before it too was demolished as the clearance continued. Perhaps the strangest part of the story is that much of the neighbourhood was demolished before Lisbon had settled on what would replace it. Monumental buildings, high-rise blocks, new roads and even underground traffic routes were proposed for the area, but most were never built. In the modern-day photo, almost everything across the lower half of the view has vanished. The Castelo de São Jorge and the buildings climbing the hillside remain our clearest reference points, while the Salão Lisboa, the popular neighbourhood cinema that opened here in 1915/16, is a remarkable survivor at street level. It remained a cinema until 1972, even as much of the Mouraria around it disappeared. ⸻ Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Lisbon then and now, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon photography, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, vintage photography, analog photography, 35mm photography, film photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagephotography #lisbonphotography taken in Martim Moniz by @lisboaontem
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17 days ago
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📷 Lisbon Airport 1930s - 1950s Lisbon Airport history, historic Lisbon Airport, Lisbon aviation history, Portela Airport, Aeroporto da Portela, Humberto Delgado Airport, Portuguese aviation, TAP Air Portugal history, vintage aviation, historic airports, classic airliners, aviation photography, archival aviation photography, golden age of aviation, Lisboa antiga #lisbonairport #aviationhistory #vintageaviation #historicairports #tapairportugal taken in Lisbon Airport by @lisboaontem
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19 days ago
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Miradouro De Santa Catarina, Lisboa 1991 🎥 Credit: @portugal_antigamente -– Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Lisbon then and now, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon photography, Lisbon heritage, archival photography, vintage photography, analog photography, 35mm photography, film photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga #lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagephotography #lisbonphotography taken in Miradouro Santa Catarina by @lisboaontem
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20 days ago
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Rua da Palma (Martim Moniz) 1949 📷 Historically Lisbon has done a great job of preserving historic churches, but this one wasn’t so lucky. Photographed by Eduardo Portugal (great name) in 1949, the image captures the beginning of the end for a church that had stood here since the 17th century. Inaugurated in 1646, it was badly damaged by the 1755 earthquake but survived after extensive reconstruction. Its demolition formed part of a much larger Estado Novo-era plan to modernise this area of Lisbon. Much of lower Mouraria was considered overcrowded and unsanitary, while its dense network of narrow streets obstructed the increasingly important route between the city centre and Avenida Almirante Reis. Entire streets and buildings were cleared to improve traffic circulation and create the open space now known as Praça do Martim Moniz. The church’s contents were distributed among several Lisbon churches, particularly the Igreja de São João de Deus, but the Igreja do Socorro itself was never rebuilt. I wonder what those little shops to the left hand side were selling... — Lisbon history, old Lisbon, historic Lisbon, vintage Lisbon, Igreja do Socorro, Martim Moniz, Mouraria, Rua da Palma, lost Lisbon, demolished buildings, Lisbon architecture, Lisbon photography, archival photography, vintage photography, historic photography, Lisboa antiga \#lisbonhistory #lisbonarchitecture #oldlisbon #vintagelisbon #lisbonphotography taken in Martim Moniz by @lisboaontem
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21 days ago
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