Espaços com história na Lisboa dos séculos XVIII e XIX. Do Martinho ao Nicola

Abstract

Places with a history in Lisbon between the 18th and the 19th centuries: From Martinho to Nicola. Following Miguel de Unamuno’s statement, that the «coffee-house» and the «public square» were the «true Spanish popular University», our goal will be to travel through such Portuguese public spaces, which symbolically received the name of the drink they served, Cafe, and became centres for the exchange of ideas, for literary gatherings, for meetings and amusements, a symbol of European modernity in the 17th and 18th centuries.