Monday 28 October 2013

The pink street in Cais do Sodré area, Lisbon - The 26th of October 2013



The once sordid  lower down town area of the harbour, Cais do Sodré, known for having been a haven for pimps, women of various "virtues" and mostly sailors who came ashore to enjoy a couple of hours in the bars lining its streets and which later became a rather "posh" entertainment area has now been "refurbished" thanks to the creativity of an architect, who decided to have its (I presume now) pedestrian street painted in a vibrant pink.

Whether the colour will have an impact on what goes on there at night I don't know, but the truth is it does look good and definitely different in the day light. 
























I wish they just painted every street in any existing vibrant colour ... or (why not) the colours of the rainbow and maybe the actual crisis wouldn't look so grim ...




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