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Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré

Three neighbourhoods, three very different personalities. Chiado invites days spent boutique-shopping, gallery-hopping and lingering in literary cafes. Its more rakish, party-loving neighbour is Bairro Alto, a tangle of lanes harbouring dozens of shabby-chic shops, late-night bistros and hole-in-the-wall bars. Swinging south, Cais do Sodré has reinvented itself from red-light district to nightlife hub.

The colourful Gloria Funicular (Ascensor da Gloria) with Azulejos tiles, which connects the Pombaline downtown with the Bairro Alto.

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