Lisbon, because of Pessoa.

Follow Pessoa on a literary journey steeped in ink!

Come to Lisbon,

See the sea from centuries ago,

Step on bricks from millennia ago,

Let go of months of worries.

Bathe in the most artistic sun, be drenched in the most poetic rain;

Tread the stone paths thick with dust, witness the glorious Age of Discovery!

To me, Lisbon in the sunlight is splendid and mottled, more beautiful than any flower. — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

In 1925, Fernando Pessoa wrote a guide to Lisbon for foreign visitors in English. This typewritten manuscript was discovered among his belongings long after his death and only published in recent years.

Pessoa rarely left Lisbon after adulthood and expressed in his past works that traveling abroad from Lisbon was unnecessary. What magic does Lisbon possess that made Pessoa say: "If the world were in my hand, I am sure I would exchange it for a ticket back to Rua dos Douradores"?

For contemporary tourists, in addition to seeing Lisbon through the eyes of this local literary giant, they can also see the traces of Pessoa a hundred years later, which have also become a scenic highlight of the city.

So let's go to Lisbon.

Go to Lisbon bathed in brilliant sunshine, go to Lisbon drenched in heavy rain;

Go smell the aroma of egg tarts outside the Jerónimos Monastery, go feel the hard cobblestones of Rua dos Douradores;

Go have a staring contest with nameless statues, go stand idly in the center of a plaza and become an art installation in others' eyes...

Go to Lisbon and become an indefinable heteronym,

Because this city always has a Pessoa who understands your multiple personalities.

If life is a prison, then reading is yard time, and travel is a parole that fools the judge!

If you also carry a local Lisbon literary giant with you, you are the most romantic outlaw!

The Book of Disquiet casts a spell on Lisbon, making it like Joyce's Dublin, Kafka's Prague. — George Steiner (Literary critic and translation theorist)

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