A grey day in Lisbon

This post is a continuation of the previous post "A rainy day in Lisbon" and one of the last which is created during this 'awfull' winter. (Awfull for those who like to enjoy the sun!) The inspiration for this post I became from Richard Zimmlers novel "The last Kabbalist of Lisbon".

Again a rainy day in Lisbon.......

It is another rainy day in Lisbon when I go to Lisbon to shoot some photo's in the Alfama, one of the most beautiful areas of this city which survived the earthquake of 1755. Here you can find still the feeling of the medieval period when Lisbon got rid of the muslim domination. I walk through the area around the Igreja Sau Miguel. Once this was a Jewish Ghetto, the Juderia Pequena, untill in februari 1506 two Dominican Monks spread from their churchbalcony the luminous message that all Jews where heretics. It was in the time of the catolic inquisition and there was a long time of dryness and the city was attacked by the plague, so this words lead to the slaughter and burning of thousands of the Jewish Population and the end of the Juderia Pequena........

Music Yasmin Levy

Some details from the entrance from the Igreja Nossa Senhora da Concençao Velha, An old church from the 16 century which is build on the fundaments of a Jewish synagoge.

Returning to the Baixa, the downtown centre of Lisbon I meet the Beatles and watch the Rossio trainstation under water!

25 april 2009 'Time for a new revolution!'

nostalgia for April 25 1974, when there was still hope and faith for better times

On the feet of the statue of Luis de Camoes

the meeting of old and new

In 1974 they had to run to Brazil!. Now they are back. Rightwing in a democratic style. They have their own party, where they will talk about new roads and shopping centres where the portugese people can work for hunger wages. Maybe it's time for a new revolution, but that is dangerous too, because not everybody is an revolutionary paradise child!