Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal

It’s typical to find students connecting with friends here on weekday evenings while lunch hour attracts an ‘invasion’ of white collar employees from the many financial and creative companies located in adjacent buildings. The Amoreiras Plaza and Páteo Bagatela provide orientation points for the mass of visitors. Amoreiras is primarily residential, so people coming here typically have a defined objective. Few street-side shops exist, as business is concentrated in Amoreiras, but some luxury hotels, the beautiful tree-shaded garden and the grand Águas Livres Aqueduct, which reaches its final destination at the Mãe D’água here, are places worth visiting. Multiple bus routes and Metro stops within a short walk offer easy public transit access to the center and the neighborhood.