Avenidas Novas Renewed

The itinerary begins in the emblematic Galeto – symbol of the modernity of the 60s and 70s – and ends in the complicity of Jardim Amália Rodrigues, the work of architect Ribeiro Telles, an exponent of contemplation and peace. A route from Saldanha to Parque Eduardo VII, going through República Avenue, Duque d’Ávila, Gulbenkian, Marquês da Fronteira Street, Azul Neighbourhood and Lago do Roseiral. The journalist Paula Moura Pinheiro reminds us of the beginning of the 20th century and the importance of the architect Norte Júnior, with the GPS guiding us to the bourgeois lustre. A journey made of individual and collective memories for a re-encounter with the renewed New Avenues where stores with stories – which are born in the clothes of the family store Casa Xangai, in the Versailles Bakery, an essential point of passage of cultural life from 1922 and in the Pearl of Chaimite – have address and give them soul.

Distance: 1,6 km

Difficulty-Level: Easiest

Audio Duration: 43 minutes

Starting Point: Galeto Snack-Bar (Av. da República 14, 1050-191 Lisboa)

Ends: Amália Rodrigues Garden

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Paula Moura Pinheiro © Isabel Pinto

(Coimbra, 1964) Paula Moura Pinheiro is a journalist, graduated in Media from Nova University of Lisbon and post graduated in EU Law from European Institute of University of Lisbon Law School. She started in the Press in 1987 and in Television in 1992. In 1994 she made her first radio programme. Often simultaneously in the three broadcast stations, she has worked over the years mainly as interviewer, chronicler and author of TV and Radio programmes. Among other things, she was deputy director of RTP2 from 2006 to 2012 and responsible for the programme Câmara Clara for about seven years. The programme Visita Guiada (Guided Tour), of which she is also the director, has been on display on several RTP channels since March 2014.