The blue sky, clothelines and ceramic tiled wall, a prefect match for a romantic combination ofvisual dynamics.
The capital of Portugal can be considered the cradle of Pessoa's thoughts and wanderings, the green root from which his stories have sprung to life. If you want to follow the path he hasindicated in his books, you need to start your journey from Rua dos Douradores, the real bursting heart and centre of the commercial activities of Lisbon. This is the street of ancient shops an professions such as cobblers and drapers, a street with nooks and crannies to be admired, a teeming mass of people and things with stories to tell and remember.
As a matter of fact, Bernardo Soares, the fictional author of Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet lived and worked in this street:
"And if the office on Rua dos Douradores represents life for me, the fourth-floor room where I live, on this same Rua dos Douradores represents Art for me. Yes, Art, residing on the very same street as Life, but in a different place. Art, which gives me relief from life without relieving me of living, being as monotonous as life itself, only in a different place. Yes, for me, the Rua dos Douradores contains the meaning of everything and the answer to all riddles except for the riddle of why riddles exist, which can never be answered".
http://www.moleskine.com/fr/moleskinecity/wordswriters/wandering_with_pessoa_in_the_discovery_of_lisbon.php
