Queen Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Bragança

 The favourite chapter by the author LOST LISBON is on the 7th volume of this gigantic work. Marina Tavares Dias dedicated a dense research, for more than 15 years, to the study of all documents related to Queen Stephanie of Portugal , always bearing in mind how different she was from all the other queens, from any time or country. Queen Stephanie, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first royal to decide to build a hospital exclusively dedicated to poor children. It still exists in Lisbon, and its park is a beautiful place to visit and rest.

We hope to see the publishing QUEEN STEPHANIE's biography , as announced more than 20 years ago . This vast work will cast light on the established historical lies about Estefania / Stephanie of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen. Lies not only about the Queen herself but also about the people who, in the later 1800s, started the urban myths that led to these incredible lies.

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EÇA DE QUEIROZ AND «LIFE'S LOSERS»

Marina Tavares Dias
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THE LISBON OF EÇA DE QUEIROZ:

Eça de Queiroz, the most famous Portuguese novelist of the late 1800s, was part of a literary group with the provocative title os «Life's Losers» or «Losers of Life». They reunited during long evenings of delicious conversation and even more delicious suppers at Lisbon's best restaurants of the time. 

Here is a very raare photograph of «The Losers of Life» (with the exception of António Cândido) photographed by Augusto Bobone in 1889, in the garden of the house of the Count of Arnoso, on Rua de S. Domingos à Lapa: Marquês de Soveral (Luiz Pinto de Soveral, 1850-1922), Carlos Lima Mayer (1846-1910), Count of Sabugosa (António José de Mello Cezar de Menezes, 1854-1923), Oliveira Martins (1846-1894), Carlos Lobo d'Ávila (1860-1895), Eça (1845-1900) ), Ramalho Ortigão (1836-1915), Guerra Junqueiro (1850-1923), Count of Arnoso (Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, 1855-1911) and Count of Ficalho (Francisco Manoel de Mello Breyner, 1837-1903).

«Paris made the Revolution, London gave us Shakespeare, Vienna gave Mozart, Berlin gave Kant, Lisbon... has given US – what the hell!»
- Eça de Queiroz in a letter to Ramalho Ortigão, July 20, 1873.
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'Rossio???' - asks the tourist, probably lost in... Rossio

 

Rossio or D. Pedro IV Square?

“The funniest mystery about Lisbon is this: why do some streets and squares have two names? Rossio is also Praça Dom Pedro IV, butno-one calls it that;  Terreiro do Paço is «officially» Praça do Comércio; Campo de Santana «became» Campo dos Mártires da Pátria. Across the decades or even centuries, some of the place names in Lisbon were changed, but the Lisbonese didn’t go along with it and continued to use the original designations. As my grandfather used to say, that’s how you can tell who’s from Lisbon and who’s not. People from outside Lisbon use the name Praça do Comércio instead of Terreiro do Paço, and the same applies to Rossio, Campo de Santana and other places”.

                         ROSSIO IN YHE 1960’S 

It was Alis Ubbo to the Phoenicians, Olissipo to the Romans, Al-Ushbuna to the Arabs and Lisboa to the Portuguese. Today it belongs to everyone, and everyone can gaze upon its splendour from the viewpoint at Nossa Senhora do Monte and at the light, refracted by the river, which illuminates its hills and houses.

The peaceful Revolution of 1974

This photograph, taken in LISBON, on the early hours of April 25, 1974, does not look like the picture of a revolution. Yet it is. Of a particularly peaceful one that, on that same day, ended a 48 year old dictatorship. 

One of the soldiers had left the tank to make a call from the phone booth (the public telephone was the only option in those days, and still safer than any cellphone). The poster calls for an «evolution without revolution». But the future was already on the march.

Today in PORTUGAL we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 25th of April. 

The MARINA TAVARES DIAS ARCHIVES