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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Publishers' Photo Service 



TYPICAT, OF" LISBON 



Typical of its stores, its newer business buildings, designed to resist earthquakes, and its 

 methods of transportation. It is not difficult to believe that Lisbon is a clean city when this 

 photograph is studied. 



where the banks are sheer and perpen- 

 dicular huge elevators (ascensores) have 

 been installed (see illustration, page 514). 



To go from the shopping district of 

 the Cidade direct to the upper elevations 

 of the Alcantara district to the west, one 

 need only board the ascensore in the Rua 

 da Santa Justa and take a hop up to the 

 iron bridge leading to the Largo do Carmo. 



This giant lift is not a thing of beauty, 

 but it is useful in the extreme. The 

 bridge from the ascensore to the Largo 

 is high above the Chiado, Lisbon's Fifth 

 Avenue, but an intermediate stage per- 

 mits one to alight on a level with that 

 street of high-priced shops and restau- 

 rants. 



By this lift method one may visit three 

 or four levels in as many minutes, but if 

 attempting to climb by the ordinary 

 routes, via winding streets or immense 

 flights of stone steps, one needs time — 

 and wind. 



One may run the risk of being arrested 

 for cruelty to animals by engaging a hack 

 and endeavoring to reach the top of a 

 neighboring district sitting behind a strug- 

 gling little beast, more pony than horse, 

 whose desperate efforts to make altitude 

 are patent to all the besabered policemen 

 along the line of march. Of course, one 

 may assist the driver to swear or moan, 

 as the case may be, in momentary expec- 

 tation of seeing the poor horse settle down 

 on his beam ends and slide to the foot of 

 the hill, there to be carted off to the town 

 pound, while driver and passenger fall 

 into the hands of the authorities. 



Taxicabs are much in demand for get- 

 ting about the mountainous streets of 

 Lisbon. All the American "brands" of 

 automobiles are to be found at the stands. 



The eight streets running north and 

 south in the Cidade pour into the Rocio 

 and the Praga da Figueira. The Rocio is 

 a beautiful square, remarkable for its 



