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Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke take us on three cultural city breaks.

Art historians Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke take us on three entertaining and revealing cultural city breaks.

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Lisbon: Art Lovers' Guide

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Lisbon: An Art Lovers' Guide

Janina Ramirez

Alastair Sooke

Ben Harding

Matthew Springford

Richard Bright

An Art Lovers' Guide: Series 2: Lisbon

Lisbon

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Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke reveal Lisbon's fascinating history.

Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke reveal Lisbon's fascinating history through its cobbled streets, steep hills, picturesque shoreline and cultural riches.

In the first of a series of city adventures, Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke head to Lisbon, rapidly becoming one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations. 
 
Winding through the city’s cobbled streets, from its steep hills to the picturesque shore line, the cultural riches they encounter reveal the city's fascinating history.  
 
From a spectacular monument, to the maritime globetrotting of Portugal’s ‘golden age and the work of a photographer documenting the city's large African population, they discover a complex history of former glories and a darker, slave-trading past.
 
Their journey also uncovers the impact of twentieth century dictatorship on the city's artistic and cultural life, through the work of contemporary artists Paula Rego and Joana Vasconcelos.
 
And they discover how the city's location on the west coast of Europe, looking out to the Atlantic, has shaped the cosmopolitan spirit of the city: in one of the city's Fado clubs, Alastair and Nina enjoy the popular Portuguese folk music, whose beautiful melodies celebrate a yearning for home, once sung by sailors dreaming of their return.

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Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke take us on three revealing, cultural city breaks.

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