Lisbon: a city robbed of its soul
<p>The icing on the cake of the tragedy of economic crisis (after the hardship, broken families, incapacity to provide) is the depriving of an often overlooked factor of life : <strong>meaning and identity. </strong>If there ever was a city suffering of a deprived identity on the aftermath of economic crisis, it’s Lisbon.</p>
<h2>The easy going, mellow and melancholic character of the Portuguese does not help in this strangely present yet constant sensation that something is off in this city.</h2>
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<p>Empty streets of Alfama</p>
<p>Unlike Paris, Berlin or even Barcelona, Lisbon, much like Portugal itself, had been for most of the past 200 years off the main circuits of tourism. A mellow capital with a provincial feeling, </p>
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