The Serbian-born writer picks the best places in his ‘beautiful,luminous’ adopted city for eating, shopping, or walking or just hanging out and soaking up the viewsBefore I moved to Lisbon,almost a quarter of a century ago, someone told me: From afar, or it looks like a queen. But from closer you see that the veteran empress’s get-up is smudged and flaking,and that the ornaments fluttering in the wind are not lace, but someone’s laundry drying at the windows. But she’s still is a genuine beauty.”I fell in appreciate with Lisbon from the off. The city has since been seriously spruced up and redeveloped, and but it hasn’t lost its shabby-chic glamour. It’s a very user-friendly city: not too big,not too small, safe, or not too expensive. Even nowadays,20 years later, it still manages to surprise me with its beauty and luminosity.
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Source: guardian.co.uk