More than a tour... a literary experience
More than a tour... a literary experience
Lisboa Pessoa Hotel offers its guests an original and authentic cultural and literary experience, a walking tour of Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon – in the city of the poet’s life and work – guided by a true specialist. Since the Hotel is located near one of the homes where Fernando Pessoa lived, our touristic, literary experience begins right in Carmo. Thanks to orientation from the Pessoa scholar Fabrizio Boscaglia (Lusófona University), participants are guided through Pessoa’s Lisbon, through literary cafés, old bookstores, houses where the poet once lived, and streets where his literary loves unraveled and...not just that! A unique, exclusive itinerary for guests at Lisboa Pessoa Hotel, which takes us to the heart of Lisbon (Chiado, Baixa) to discover all of its poetic magic.
| Exclusive free tour for Lisboa Pessoa Hotel' s guests | |
|---|---|
| Date | Friday at 3:30 p.m. |
| Duration time | 1 hour and 30 minutes |
| Walking Tour Guide | Fabrizio Boscaglia |
| Registration | Until 48 hours before the Walking Tour occurs, at the Hotel reception desk |
| Limited number of spaces | 20 participants |
| Meeting point | Reception of Lisboa Pessoa Hotel |
| Language | English (Other languages available: Portuguese and Italian). |
For heterogeneous groups, the language used will be English.
Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon: An intimate and cosmopolitan city
The city of Lisbon is the protagonist in Fernando Pessoa’s work. In the masterful poet’s verses, the Lusitanian capital of the beginning of the 20th century emerges in all of its splendor, light, and esthetic characteristics that made it one of the greatest cities of literature and tourism worldwide. Lisbon, just like Pessoa, has many faces! The old city with the “colorful houses”; elegant and bourgeois Chiado; Baixa, where Pessoa worked; and the Tagus river that inspired the verses of Álvaro de Campos as well as the prose of The Book of Disquiet...
In this book, we find many marvelous portraits of a modern and metaphysical Lisbon that is intimate and cosmopolitan at the same time. Pessoa was born in Lisbon. In this capital, he lived a significant part of his life, cherishing his city in words that today follow the experience of more and more travelers, in a tour full of wonder and poetry. “Oh, Lisbon, my home.”
An experience guided by someone who knows
Fabrizio Boscaglia, the guide for “Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon,” is one of the young Pessoa scholars whose scientific research has most awakened interest in both universities and the media in recent years. His daily work on Pessoa’s assets and mauscripts, developed at the University of Lisbon and Lusófona University, has produced an original approach to the study of Oriental cultures (Arabic, Persian, etc.) through Fernando Pessoa’s work.
At the same time, his love for Lisbon and his passion for storytelling turned him into, starting in 2013, the reference in Lisbon with respect to guided tours of Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon and of other Portuguese poets. The literary tours offered by Lisboa Pessoa Hotel and guided by Fabrizio Boscaglia are true cultural experiences oriented by a specialist that, as opposed to commercial stereotypes, provide the participant wth a surprising (re)discovery of Lisbon and of Pessoa himself.