Sport Lisboa e Benfica

[Festivus]

Quality-wise: Di Maria, Matic, Ramires

Importance-wise: Simão, Aimar, Luisão

[Faliro]

Interesting seems there is a lot of a cross over.

The most popular seem the famous Simao Sabrosa, the clever Aimar and the ultimate midfielder Matic..

[Lycaon]

The best, Di María and Matic.

The most important, Simão and Cardozo.

The most fucking epic genius classy motherfucker, Pablo Aimar.

[cipri_slb]

Today is the birthday of our great club ! 111 years !   


Congratulations Sport Lisboa e Benfica!

[paalexg]

Today is the birthday of our great club ! 111 years !   


Congratulations Sport Lisboa e Benfica!

The only moment that I like Marquês de Pombal's square...I think that such an important place for Lisbon and Portugal shouldn't be sorrounded by those shitty buildings. Just my opinion...

[Baron_Davis]

figures: Simao, Luisao, Cardozo

quality: Simao, Matic, Aimar and a huge and underrated player: Ramires

[Faliro]

Today is the birthday of our great club ! 111 years !   


Congratulations Sport Lisboa e Benfica!

The only moment that I like Marquês de Pombal's square...I think that such an important place for Lisbon and Portugal shouldn't be sorrounded by those shitty buildings. Just my opinion...

Still better than what the Greeks did to Omonia and Syndagma Squares... 

[paalexg]

Today is the birthday of our great club ! 111 years !   


Congratulations Sport Lisboa e Benfica!

The only moment that I like Marquês de Pombal's square...I think that such an important place for Lisbon and Portugal shouldn't be sorrounded by those shitty buildings. Just my opinion...

Still better than what the Greeks did to Omonia and Syndagma Squares... 

I just checked those...horrible.

I was talking about the semi-circular buildings...because the rest it's quite nice, honestly.






The main problem, for me, in Lisbon is the amount of buildings that are damaged...too many of them. Thousands...

[Faliro]

Is it cheap to buy an old damaged house is Lisboa?

Regarding Omonia and Syndagma, the two most important squares in Greece...

Omonia before..





Today..



Syndagma (Parliament square) before..



Today:

[paalexg]

Is it cheap to buy an old damaged house is Lisboa?

No. I mean, at least at the historical centre...they are super expensive, so these buildings, usually, just are bougth to make hotels or stuff like that...





An example...

[Faliro]

Yea, my friend who loves lisboa says there are plenty of old houses literally falling apart in Lisboa.. I saw a few from the plane when taking off from the airport. They had no roofs..

[Festivus]

Lisboa has improved somewhat in the past decade. In the late 90s/early 00s it felt like a depressing place at times. Fortunately some squares and gardens have been taken care of since then. Many places were sorta abandoned for several years.

[Faliro]

It seems a beautiful city.

[Festivus]

It seems a beautiful city.

The historical parts are nice. The rest of the city is far from being impressive. Then again, not every quarter of Paris is beautiful either.

[H]

It seems a beautiful city.

I like Lisboa quite a lot and miss it very much.

My latest hobby before leaving was walking around the historical center, visiting the alfarrabistas (old bookstores with decade-old editions and very cheap prices), I've even made a map for it. Walking around, up and down the narrow alleys and streets, with the Portuguese pavement under my feet, always felt special to me, while having the river and the sea visible from most places added a bit of mystique to it.

One of my best experiences was when me and a couple of friends went to Cacilhas (on the other side of the river) to have some wine and fried cuttlefish (a specialty of the region). Coming back to Lisbon on a cacilheiro (classic old boat) with our spirits very high due to Bacchus nectar, we witnessed the twilight, while bouncing on the waves. Then we went to explore the old part of the city and... This was absolutely amazing, but somehow we got into a hidden square, surrounded by old buildings, a very unusual and different sight from the rest of the city. The square was filled with ordinary people, the kind of people that live with the minimum wage but still smile throughout the day and the years. Apparently a couple of that neighbourhood had just married on that day and by pure coincidence, when we got there, it came out of nowhere a guy with a classic guitar and dared the groom to sing with him playing, so they started playing and singing Fado. In a second, the whole square joined in unison, people (probably) from the wedding, people on the sidewalks just crossing by out of coincidence, people on the windows from around the whole square. Then as soon as it ended, everyone just casually dispersed and went on with their lives. A magic moment, that lasted no more than 5 minutes, but that gave me the chills and I will forever remember it in my mind.

PS: The song was "Lisboa Menina e Moça".