Square, Plaza sights in Lisbon
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Praça do Comércio
Marquês de Pombal’s grandest design, this is a square to out-pomp them all: a whirl of 18th-century lemon-meringue edifices and arcades with vistas across the Tejo. The biggest crowd-puller is Verissimo da Costa’s Arco da Vitória, a mighty triumphal arch crowned with bigwigs including explorer Vasco da Gama, which leads onto Rua Augusta.
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Praça do Município
Just off the Praça do Comércio's northwestern corner, the smaller Praça do Município is dominated on the eastern side by the 1874 Paços do Concelho (town hall) where the republic was proclaimed from its balcony on 5 October 1910; on the southern side by the former marine arsenal; and centrally a finely carved, 18th-century pelourinho (pillory).
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Praça do Príncipe Real
The Praça do Príncipe Real is a relaxing shady square around which is Lisbon's principal gay district.
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