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Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Rua Augusta (Augusta street) is located in one of the busiest quarters of Lisbon. Closed to traffic, this pedestrianised street has all sorts of shops for all sorts of tastes, flower peddlars, hot chestnuts sellers, street cafés, independent street Artists like the "statue man" or the familiar harmonica player and many, many more. This street has on both extremes two magnificent squares: the Rossio Square and the Commerce Square. Near the arch that gives way to the Commerce Street you will find many peddlers with all sorts of things to sell from jewellery to shoes to handbags, neck-scarfs to temporary tattoos... anything... just name it! Another curious thing in this area is the name of the streets that run parallel to Rua Augusta. They all come from the occupations or the materials once existent and worked on here: Rua dos Sapateiros (shoemakers), Rua da Prata (silver), Rua do Ouro (gold), etc. The old architectural style, originally from the reconstruction of Lisbon made by...

Áurea street (c ommonly called street Ouro ) belongs to the parish of St. Nicholas , begins at Commerce Square at number 11 and ends at Praça D. Pedro IV ( Rossio ) . This road connects the Commerce Square ( Palace Square ) , Square D. Pedro IV ( aka Rossio ) . It is one of the most beautiful roads of the civil architecture of Pombal , stolen in part to the Tagus River , with their buildings based on wooden piles preserved by the flow of the river that floods the basement . In these pictures we can see the street in your walk its length in a cobblestone , perspective view of the Santa Justa Elevator in Baixa Lisbon . http://aps-ruasdelisboacomhistria.blogspot.com Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c