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Secret Lisbon - An Unusual Travel Guide Vitor Manuel Adriao

Let Secret Lisbon guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Lisbon guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's third edition, Secret Lisbon features 160 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Lisbon : The most beautiful hidden tiles of the city, the head of the serial killer Lisbon preserved in formalin, the Kabbalistic principles of the south portal of the Jeronimos Monastery or the theory of the fifth Portuguese empire of which we find so many traces in the geography of the city, charming forgotten dead ends, the outstanding panoptic architecture of a former hospital, the impressive wax masks from the Dermatology Museum, a secret passage at the hotel Avenida Palace, the mysterious abbey below Palacio Foz, the reason why the coat of arms of the Portugal is inclined at 17 Degrees on the facade of the Rossio station ... Don't miss - Each chapter of this Secret Lisbon travel guide book corresponds to a different neighbourhood of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover. Perfectly planned walks - Make sure that you do not miss any Secret location, by discovering each one featured in this guide by planning a walking tour of each neighbourhood.

Über Vitor Manuel Adriao

Vitor Manuel Adriao, acclaimed historian and philosopher, is heir to all this esoteric knowledge in Portugal. Here for the first time he reveals his incredible knowledge in this truly initiatory guide, with a mind-boggling interpretation of the arcana of a city which some consider is on the way to becoming the spiritual capital of Europe.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vila Berta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The stars of Estrella d'Ouro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Saint Gens' chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tavora Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Colegio dos Meninos Orfaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The curiosities of Menino Deus Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The azulejos of the Belmonte Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The cistern of Saint Michael of Alfama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Why does the El Rei Fountain have six water outlets? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The symbols of Saint Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The legend of Santa Luzia (Saint Lucia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Protection from fever or sore throats: the miracles of Saint Blaise . . . . . 31 Why is Saint Blaise one of the patron saints of the Order of Malta? . . . . . 31 The unusual capitals of Lisbon Cathedral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Principles of Sacred Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Lisbon Cathedral's Holy Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The sarcred symbolism of the Fleur-De-Lis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 The Pentagrams of the Cathedral Cloister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The bird pillar in the Cathedral Cloister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Pillar of the souls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Roman stelae at Pedras Negras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The magical black stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Olisipo: Lisbon's version of the goddess Cybele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The mysterious Cais das Colunas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Baixa Pombalina's Sacred Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Hermetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The seven sacred hills of Lisbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Hermes Trismegistus and Hermetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The symbols of the equestrian statue of king Dom Jose I . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The mechanism of the clock on Rua Augusta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Fernando Pessoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Fernando Pessoa's table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 The symbols of Lisbon's triumphal arch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The transfer of power - Translatio Imperii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Father Antonio Vieira and the Fifth Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Portugal: the Head of the Body of Europe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The blazing eagle of Sao Nicolau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 The eagle: the only bird with double eyelids capable of staring directly at the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Rossio Cinema's Art Nouveau Facade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 The dolls' hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 The medallion of two joined hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Masonic salute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Why is an espresso called a bica in Lisbon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Painting of Bocage's arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Secrets of Tabacaria Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The bust of Prince Albert I of Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The last vestiges of the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos . . . . . . . . . . 80 The panels of the Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 When Christ detached his right arm from the cross to bless liberated Portugal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Panoramic view of Lisbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Patio do Tronco tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Lima de Freitas' fifth empire panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Secret passage of the Avenida Palace Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The sercrets of the Dom Sebastiao statue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 17, Portugal's key number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Why was Portugal's coat of arms straightened? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Dom Sebastiao, the Chimerical King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The underground abbey of Palacio Foz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Freemason Agapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The symbols of Palacio Foz's Abadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The underground passage of Principe Real Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 The azulejos of the Cardaes Convent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 From Portuguese azulejos to Dutch ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Atelier-Museu Julio Pomar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 An icon of modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The forgotten palace of the Almada-Carvalhais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 The sculpture of Adamastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Santa Catarina: a Belvedere for the lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Palace of the Marquis of Pombal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Cagliostro at Palacio Sobral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Egyptian mysteries revealed in The Magic Flute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Cagliostro, an occultist who inspired Mozart, Goethe and Alexadre Dumas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Palacio do Manteigueiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Domingos Mendes Dias, a true miser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Sebastianism and Messianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Messianism and the fifth empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Fado: Portuguese identity linked to Sebastianism? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Tombs of the Sebastianists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The symbols of the tomb of king Dom Fernando I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Trinidade Brasserie's Masonic Azulejos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 The Saint Constable's magic sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 The Carmelites: an orde influenced by Hermetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 The strange story of the Braco de Prata (Silver Arm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Royal door of our lady of the Victory of Mount Carmel Convent . . . . . . 127 The five-pointed star of Grandella department stores . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The symbolism of the Pentagram, the five-pointed star . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Epic of the Holy Constable Relics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Nuno Alvares Pereira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Tomb of the Countess of Edla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 The symbols of Carvalho Monteiro's Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Knights Templar: myth and reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 The Duke of Palmela's Masonic vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Fonte Santa dos Prazeres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 The interior garden of the Sao Bento Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 German Cemetery in Lisbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 A secular German presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Francesinhas Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 British Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 The Mouse of Rato Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Calceteiro, a dying craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Lion of the star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Nativity scene in the Basilica da Estrela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Facade of Casa do Visconde de Sacavem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Casa Museu Sofia e Tomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 The high relief of martyr saints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 In the odour of sanctity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Secrets of Nuno Goncalves' Polyptych . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Melki-Tzedek and Prester John: myth and reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Symbolism of the two-headed Manuelin Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Sao Jeronimo chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Manuelin Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Traces of the Kabbalah on Jeronimos monastery's south gate . . . . . . 179 The Iberian Kabbalah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Dom Henrique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Symbols of the cell doors of Hieronymite monks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Joachim of Fiore and the three ages of the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Alchemy and the religious orders of the middle ages and the Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Chao Salgado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 The tomb of the Marquis of Pombal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 The mysterious fountain with forty spouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 The Pompeia Room of Palacio da Ega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 The origin of Stroganoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Institute for Tropical Scientific Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 The rotunda of Santo Amaro Chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Who was Saint Maurus? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Mystery of the ambulatory of the Knights Templar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 The five basic solids and sacred geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Templar inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 What exactly is the Baphomet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Machada Grotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 The garden of the City Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 The Eyes of the Owl in Cidade Universitaria Metro Station . . . . . . . . . . 215 The ghosts of Beau Sejour Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Talia Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Symbols f the Palacio-Museu Marqueses de Fronteira . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Symbols of the Zoological Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 The head of Diogo Alves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 The Diaphanised hand of Lisbon's Teatro Anatomico . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 The Andaluz Fountain bas-relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 The raven: the origin of the name Lisbon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Saint Vincent, the saint of divine wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 The symbols of Saint Vincent's sea voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Pavilhao Carlos Lopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Symbols of the Marquis of Pombal Statue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Marquis of Pombal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Panoptic Pavilion of Hospital Miguel Bombarda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 What is panoptic architecture? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Secrets of Casa Dos 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 The ex-votos around the statue of doctor Sousa Martins . . . . . . . . . . 243 Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 The wax masks in the Museum of Dermatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 The former Viuva Lamego ceramics factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 The lizard of penha de franca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Church of Sao Felix de Chelas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 The hermetic azulejos of Madre de Deus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Pietro Proserpio's mini-museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Village Underground Lisboa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Village Underground, a European concept on a roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR010007721

ISBN 13

9782361952365

ISBN 10

236195236X

Titel

Secret Lisbon - An Unusual Travel Guide Vitor Manuel Adriao

Autor

Vitor Manuel Adriao

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Jonglez

Datum

20180925

Anzahl der Seiten

240

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N/A

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Hinweis

Dies ist ein gebrauchtes Buch. Es wurde schon einmal gelesen und weist von der früheren Nutzung Gebrauchsspuren auf. Wir gehen davon aus, dass es im Großen und Ganzen in einem sehr guten Zustand ist. Sollten Sie jedoch nicht vollständig zufrieden sein, setzen Sie sich bitte mit uns in Verbindung.